Question

Summary of the poem break break break by alfred lord tennyson in first stanza

Answer 1

1.The speaker addresses the ocean directly, telling the waves to "break,break,break" on a stormy shore.
2.After telling the sea to keep on doing this,the speaker regrets that he can't express his thoughts.
3. He dosen't come out and say" i can't utter/the thoughts," he says that his "tongue" can't utter. This makes him seem kind of passive.
4.He is not really thinking either.- the thoughts " arise in" him almost spontanously , without effort. 

Answer 2

Explanation:

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★ Alfred, Lord Tennyson composed "Break, Break, Break" in 1835, two years after the death of his close friend and fellow poet, Arthur Hallam. Because the poem's speaker laments the death of a close acquaintance, most readers read "Break, Break, Break" as an elegy to Hallam, though the poem stands on its own as a more general meditation on mortality and loss. Published in 1842, the poem is often read alongside Tennyson's "In Memoriam A. H. H.," a longer work that is more explicit in its commemoration of Hallam and the impact he had on Tennyson's life.

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★The speaker addresses the waves of the sea, telling them to crash against the rocky shore again and again. Watching this happen, the speaker yearns for the ability to express troubling thoughts that won't go away.