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"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean." The previous sentence is a line

from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem, "Tears, idle tears." Just from reading the first

sentence in this poem, you get an understanding that the speaker is weeping. Something

doleful and saddening has happened in the speaker's life. However, he claims he does not

know what his tears mean. After reading this poem, I got the feeling that the speaker had

lost a loved one. There are many intimations that lead me to this conclusion.

In the first stanza, from the line, "Tears from the depth of some divine despair," I

know that the speaker is feeling great sorrow of something that is a "divine despair." The

first thing I think of is death. "Rise in the hea

thinks of the days, the way he is accustomed to feeling, that will be different now.

lips that are for others; deep as love, deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death

a feeling of yearning for the past set by the speaker in this line.

In the last stanza more is revealed of the story that goes along with the poem.

half-awakened birds, To dying ear, when unto dying eyes." I am unsure of what this

usually turn up, to mourn for the death. Memories are thought of because of the death.

rt, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the

"Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns, The earliest pipe of

"Dear as remembered kisses after death, and sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned, on

"half-awakened bird," everything is a little

Approximate Word count = 510
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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