d gather to the eyes,In looking on the happy autumn fields,And thinking of the days that are no more.”Both poems do not contain any hope in relationships because there longer are anyrelationships. In both “On the Hill Below the Lighthouse” and “Tears, Idle tears” thereis only the memory of the loved one that is inside the heart. Both poems are passionate ina different aspect. Dickey’s poem seems to be more of a contemproary approach. Thereis not as much regret as there is in Tennyson’s poem. However, there is more desire orremembering in Dickey’s poem. This can be achieved from the last line of the stanza,“Coming back, coming back, going over.” And in “Tears, Idle Tears,” there isremembrance only when something that reminds of the narrator appears or happens, “inlooking on the happy autumn fields, and thinking of the days that are no more.” Nature is something that strong in both poems, although there is more imaginationin Dickey’s poem. “The lighthouse has opened its brain” and “a bright arm sweepsthrough the moon” are very creative personifications. Yet it also these lines that help tocreate the setting for the poem. In “Tears, Idle Tears,” it is the “autumn fields, summerdawns, half-awakened birds” that help create the background. The language in both poemare sad but not depressing. The language is simple and flowing. One would not havetrouble reading any of the two poems.The two pieces of work that I chose from the Victorian packet are “My LastDuchess” and “The Lady of Shalott.” I have connected these two poems based on thestory-like quality. “The Lady of Shalott” reads like a story that has some melody in it. The rhyming scheme is that the first four lines of each stanza rhyme, then the fifth andninth line rhyme, leaving the sixth through eighth...
