Instructions: Using specific references from "In Memoriam" Lyric 56 (printed below) and from "Tintern Abbey," contrast Tennyson's view of the relationship between mankind and nature with that of Wordsworth's. Your report should demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the significant ideas of both writers, as well as create comparisons between the two. Your report should be at least five hundred words long. You will give this report orally.

Analyze the use of imagery, language, universal themes and unique aspects of the text.
Support your viewpoints through accurate and detailed references.
Contrast the authors' use of stylistic devices, ambiguities, nuances, and complexities within the text.
Remember to document evidence from both poems in MLA format (click here to view the MLA Style Guide).

56
So careful of the type? but no.
From scarped cliff and quarried stone
She cries, "A thousand types are gone;
I care for nothing, all shall go.

"Thou makest thine appeal to me.
I bring to life, I bring to death;
The spirit does but mean the breath.
I know no more." And he, shall he,

Man, her last work, who seemed so fair,
Such splendid purpose in his eyes,
Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies,
Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer,

Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation's final law--
Though Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shrieked against his creed--

Who loved, who suffered countless ills,
Who battled for the True, the Just,
Be blown about the desert dust,
Or sealed within the iron hills?

No more? A monster then, a dream,
A discord. Dragons of the prime,
That tare each other in their slime,
Were mellow music matched with him.

O life as futile, then as frail!
O for thy voice to soothe and bless!
What hope of answer, or redress?
Behind the veil behind the veil.

scarped: steep
fanes: temples
ravine: something captured and devoured as prey
Dragons of the prime: prehistoric monsters
tare: tore
veil: the veil of death