I’ the glooming light
I’ the glooming light - meaning Summary
Sorrow at the Seashore
Tennyson's short lyric presents a solitary figure, Sorrow, seated by a winter sea beside the tools of burial. She has half-dug her grave yet remains alive, trapped between numb endurance and private mourning. The poem fixes on stasis: falling snow, a mourning wave, and her unbroken but hopeless heart. It evokes persistent grief that refuses consolation or release, emphasizing isolation and the physical atmosphere of cold desolation.
Read Complete AnalysesI I’ the glooming light Of middle night So cold and white, Worn Sorrow sits by the moaning wave; Beside her are laid Her mattock and spade, For she hath half delved her own deep grave. Alone she is there: The white clouds drizzle: her hair falls loose; Her shoulders are bare; Her tears are mixed with the bearded dews. II Death standeth by; She will not die; With glazed eye She looks at her grave: she cannot sleep; Ever alone She maketh her moan: She cannot speak; she can only weep; For she will not hope. The thick snow falls on her flake by flake, The dull wave mourns down the slope, The world will not change, and her heart will not break.
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