ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Tennyson wrote ‘In Memoriam A.H.H. ‘ as a tribute to his beloved friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died aged 22. Dr Holly Furneaux explores how the poem uses individual bereavement to grapple with broader questions of faith, meaning and nature.

Detailed explanation-2: -In Memoriam A.H.H. was written over a period of 17 years, from 1833 to 1850. Over the course of 133 cantos, it explores Alfred Lord Tennyson’s profound grief at the death of his close friend, Arthur Henry Hallam.

Detailed explanation-3: -“In Memoriam” consists of 131 smaller poems of varying length.

Detailed explanation-4: -The form became so popular and so representative of Tennyson’s style that other poets, since its publication in 1850, have utilized the form and their own works. Today, any stanza written with a rhyme scheme of ABBA and a metrical pattern of iambic tetrameter is regarded as an “In Memoriam” stanza.