The autobiographer is a crusader of human nature. He seeks to fill the cup of human experiences with the ink of his pen. With all of life’s experiences to behold, I feel the autobiographer is seduced to relinquish his experience of suffering, above all else. What relevance does a story hold if there is no tragedy to draw out the sympathies of one’s audience? Suffering allows the auto biographer to hold his audience in relative awe over the central theme of his work, the discovery of an unknown experience, an unknown life. Through the theme of suffering, the true relevance of the autobiography, as a genre of literature, emerges. Its essential relevance revolves around three main discoveries: the audience of the author, the author of the audience, and the author of the author. In other words, the experience of transcribing one’s experience causes a discovery of

Glorying, I found a counterpoise in her,

I shall not lose thee tho’ I die (Tennyson 85-86).

The suffering Tennyson experiences from grief is imminent in all natural occurrences. Sorrow’s “echo” follows Nature’s “tone.” Tennyson forfeits his lament of hope for a deterministic philosophy that provides for the author a “calm despair.” Further, the celebration of Christmas provides juxtaposition to Tennyson’s grief. Tennyson cannot look past Hallam’s death to enjoy the birth of Christ, who was also human and died. The idea of Christ as both divine and human gives a soft hint of how Tennyson will overcome his grief and suffering. As noted above, Tennyson’s sympathies for a deterministic philosophy prevent the joys of the holiday season from providing consolation:

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