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Tears, Idle Tears By Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Childhood By Frances…

- - - - Stresses how overwhelming and continuous the tears are; sounds like a sobbing refrain.
    - - “Idle”: tears can’t change the past; “divine”: the despair feels deep and almost holy → emotions are both meaningless and extremely meaningful.
    - - Despair pictured as a deep inner well or sea; shows feelings rising from inside to the surface.
    - - Autumn = late life / nearing end; fields look “happy,” but they trigger thoughts of things that are over.
    - - Create a musical, mournful tone that matches quiet weeping.
- - - - “First beam” = hope, reunion, joy; shows memories can feel newly alive and beautiful.
    - - “Last beam” = final farewell; ship with “all we love” sinking = total loss.
    - - Suggests remembered friends are like the dead, in a world we cannot reach.
    - - Packs opposite feelings into one line; memories are vivid but painful because they can’t return.
    - - Makes abstract nostalgia concrete through dramatic sea scenes.
- - - - Cuckoo’s fading call = echo of memory getting weaker but still hurting.
    - - Focuses on sound to show how the past is heard like an echo rather than clearly seen.
    - - Slows rhythm; emphasises gradual fading away of both sound and time.
    - - April/spring = youth, new beginnings; calling it “long past” underlines that youth is irrecoverable.
    - - Mirrors how memories spill over and don’t stop neatly where lines end.
- - - - “Remembered kisses after death” → precious, painful recollections of someone gone.
      - “Sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign’d / On lips that are for others” → imagined kisses on someone who now belongs to someone else (jealousy, unfulfilled desire).
    - - Exaggeration to show how overwhelmingly strong the emotions of memory and regret are.
    - - Makes regret seem like an uncontrollable force attacking the mind.
    - - Life is full of “death” because the living present is haunted by things that are gone forever.
    - - Emotional climax; gives a cry of despair rather than calm description.