... spurts out. "these buried bones...With fruitful cloud and living smoke..." (39.1-3). So he discovers the life within the tree that he did not believe existed back in the fall at the beginning of his bereavement. Throughout his exploration of his friends death, Tennyson questions the existence of God. "What then were God to such as I" (34.9)? Through his observation ... their life and death.  Matthew Arnold makes use of water and the ocean as a metaphor for his feelings in To Marguerite--Continued and Dover Beach. In Marguerite, Arnold see people as small islands surrounded by "echoing s...

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