In the Valley of Cauteretz
In the Valley of Cauteretz - fact Summary
Memory After Thirty-two Years
Tennyson’s short lyric records a walk through a valley that revives a memory from thirty-two years earlier. The speaker hears the stream and landscape as if they carry the voice of a loved one gone; the past and present fuse so that the “voice of the dead” feels alive. The poem emphasizes how place triggers vivid recollection and how memory can collapse temporal distance, making absence feel present.
Read Complete AnalysesAll along the valley, stream that flashest white, Deepening thy voice with the deepening of the night, All along the valley, where thy waters flow, I walk'd with one I loved two and thirty years ago. All along the valley while I walk'd to-day, The two and thirty years were a mist that rolls away; For all along the valley, down thy rocky bed Thy living voice to me was as the voice of the dead, And all along the valley, by rock and cave and tree, The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
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