In Memoriam — Imagery and Motifs: An Overview

Jon Lanestedt, University of Oslo, and George P. Landow, Brown University

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• bell, ring
• Christmas
• death, sleep
• door
• dream, vision
  • list of occurences in the poem
  • Dreams and Visions in In Memoriam
• hand
• infant, child
  • list of occurences in the poem
  • Identity Formation in In Memoriam 45
• lark, bird
• reading
• shadow
• ship & shipwreck & drowning
  • list of occurences in the poem
  • the shipwreck as paradigm and its relation to poetic structure
• song
• tears, cries
  • list of occurences in the poem
  • "Tears of the Widower:" Love and Grief in In Memoriam
  • Grief and the Continuation of Life
• time, hour
  • On Borrowed Time: Cycles of Narrative, Nature, and Memory in the work of Tennyson and Eliot
• type(s)
  • list of occurences in the poem
  • Interpreting Biblical Imagery and the Apocalyptic Moment in Tennyson's In Memoriam and Eliot's The Wasteland
• veil
• wasteland
• widow, wife
• wind
• yew tree

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• Victorian Mourning: The Significance of Sound in Poems of Death

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Last modified 17 December 2003