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summary off break ,break,break.​

Answer 1

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Break, break, break’: as opening lines go, it’s memorable for repeating the same word three times and allowing no variation on the rhythm or metre. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) wrote many of his greatest poems in response to the sudden death of a close friend in 1833. ‘Break, Break, Break’ is one such poem. Below is the poem, followed by a few words of analysis, addressing the poem’s language, meaning, imagery, and structure.

So, in the first of the poem’s four stanzas, Tennyson commands the sea to ‘break, break, break’ upon the cold rocks at the coast; but in the second half of that first stanza, he contrasts this outward scene with the interior one, the struggle raging within his own heart: he cannot articulate his grief, the ‘thoughts that arise’, like the waves of the sea, within him. Here, the rhyme between ‘Sea’ and ‘me’ – made all the more prominent because the other two lines of the stanza do not rhyme – draws this comparison, one that Tennyson returns to in the final stanza. The sea goes on as it must; Tennyson, however, cannot go on with his life.

The fact that Tennyson repeats the Sea/me rhyme (and the ‘Break, break, break’ command) in the final stanza reinforces his sense of paralysis: he’s still where he was at the start of the poem. Here we might observe that the form and metre of the poem, strongly suggestive of the ballad, are at odds with the poem’s message of inaction and stasis: ballads tend to tell a story, and are about people doing things. Here, everyone else is active, but the speaker cannot move on. Grief keeps his thoughts, his speech, his whole life, in check.

Tennyson’s poems are always fun to analyse. We include ‘Break, Break, Break’ in our compilation of

Tennyson’s finest poems, but you might also find our analysis of Tennyson’s short masterpiece ‘The Eagle’ of interest.

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Answer 2

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"Break, Break, Break" is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson written during early 1835 and published in 1842. The poem is an elegy that describes Tennyson's feelings of loss after Arthur Henry Hallam died and his feelings of isolation while at Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire.

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Subject(s): Death of Arthur Hallam

Written: early 1835

First published in: 1842

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