...energy aggrieved at limits, such as death. Tennyson is a great poet of anxiety, and also of serenity: In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it...Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. (The Lotos-Eaters, 1832, 3-9) My main decision in ordering his poems has been to take the 'English...

..."afternoon" and repeated "land," instead of another word to rhyme with its occurrence two lines back — "In the afternoon they came unto a land / In which it seemed always afternoon" — herald a coming lassitude and abandon, as if the description itself were like a whiff of the narcotic...

..."Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land, "This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." s froward, peevish, sullen, sour, And not obedient to his honest will, What (1. 1—4) 81 A land where all things always seemed the same! And round about the keel with faces pale....

...has his own humor, and original rhythm, music and images. How ring his humorsome lines in the ear,— "In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon."55 The Old Year's Death56 pleases me most. But why I speak of him now is because he had...

..."Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land, "This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it...Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. (Poetical Works, 51) This metaphorical stream of verse echoes and burlesques Thomas Gray's "Progress...

...diction has a Tennysonian ring, and the landscape is somewhat like that of "The Lotos-Eaters," where "the languid air did swoon, / Breathing like one that hath a weary dream." The stream in Ishmael's picture does not move, but the artist must give it the sense of movement, for...

...place in his 1832 poem The LotosEaters — it was a place "In which it seemed always afternoon./All round the coast the languid air did swoon, /Breathing like one that hath a weary dream." The lotus here is probably not the water lily, but the buckthorn, a shrubby plant with a sweet juice...

...the land, "This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon " 1n the afternoon they came unto a land 1n which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, 5 Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the ialley stood the moon; And like...

...and treacherous seas of the beginning of the second half of life. Denial: Eating the Lotus ... aland In which it seemed always afternoon, All round the...did swoon Breathing like one that hath a weary dream ... A land where all things always seem'd the same. From 'The Lotos-Eaters' by Tennyson Monica refers...

...instance, cited an excerpt from "Lotos Eaters" in the Dial as an example of Tennyson's "humoursome lines:" "In the afternoon they came unto a land / In which it seemed always afternoon." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow gave as an example of "no lovelier picture nor more true" Tennyson's lines...