Requiescat
Requiescat - context Summary
Published in in Memoriam
Tennyson's "Requiescat" appears in his 1850 In Memoriam and responds to the death of a friend's sister. It is an elegiac miniature that frames a young woman and her riverside cottage as images of transient beauty. The poem reflects Victorian grief and consolation, gently moving from domestic detail to a resigned hope for "more perfect peace," fitting In Memoriam's sustained meditation on loss and continuity.
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