In memorium is characterized as an elegy which conveys a poignant sense of loss. Elaborate
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"Tears of the widower, when he sees . . .
Her place is empty, fall like these
Which weep for ever new,
A void where heart on heart reposed:
And, where warm hands have prest and closed.
Silence, till I be silent too."
- In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Though In Memoriam is a poem about religious faith and doubt, human worth, immortality and poetry itself, the touch of loss and mourn is there at its heart. The death of his close friend, Arthus Henry Hallam, strikes hm so hard that he compares the loss of a widow to his own. Images like "a beating heart", "a once clasped hand" and "tears" are strikingly effective in reflecting the elegiac mood.
"The human-hearted man I loved,
A Spirit, not a breathing voice."
In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson is a highly poignant rendering of the loss of his friend Sir Arthur Henry Hallam.
The poem is a personal dirge or an elegy or a mournful poem because it talks about all the episodic variations that Tennyson shared with his friend, and how their lives were integrally linked to each other.
It also has similes and metaphors.