Sketching a Present

Text of section VII here.Text of section VIII here. Sec. VII reminds me of the image of Love and Grief grasping one another “lest both

Text of section V here.Text of section VI here. Sec. V: a self-reflexive song that recalls the Prologue’s plea for forgiveness. But it also responds

Text of section II here.Text of section III here.Text of section IV here. Three remarkable sections that give three very different textures to the speaker’s grief:

Text of section I here. A heartbreaking and heartbroken lyric that looks to grief as a way to sustain a feeling (?) that seems vulnerable

Link to “Prologue” Text I’ve had Tennyson on the mind for several years now, and this interest (attachment?) has intensified since my dad died this