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- Title
Navigating in Perilous Seas of Language: In Memoriam and "The Wreck of the Deutschland".
- Authors
CHRISTENSEN, ALLAN C.
- Abstract
The essay discusses the use of seafaring language as a metaphor for poetic language in the poems "In Memoriam" by Alfred Tennyson and "The Wreck of the Deutschland" by Gerard Manley Hopkins. It traces in each poem references to protected harbors and to the open seas, metaphors for the peace of a child with its mother and to the intrusion of patriarchal order and laws. The intrusions are the death of Tennyson's friend Arthur Hallam in one case and the wreck of the ship in the other.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; IN Memoriam (Poem); WRECK of the Deutschland, The (Poem : Hopkins); TENNYSON, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892; HOPKINS, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2009, Vol 47, Issue 2, p379
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/vp.0.0061