Question

Theme of tithonus by lord alfred tennyson

Answer 1

Tithonus by Alfred Tennyson was written in 1833, showing the mythical love story between a human and Greek goddess. The sotry shows how the Goddess of Beauty, and Tithonus, a human. He asks the goddess for immortality when he is in her world, and later realizes that he did not ask for eternal youth as he grows old. He can not fulfill the expectations of the goddess and asks to be sent back to Earth. 

The theme of the poem is to target the wish of humans for immortality without realizing that eternal life would not come with eternal youth and beauty.He says that humans have unlimited desire yet they do not realize their outcomes.