... to the coming natural rebirth in spring, "Thy fibres net the dreamless head, / Thy roots are rapt about the bones. / The seasons bring the flower again," (Tennyson 2.3-5). In the next section he contradicts the last by seeing the sun and stars as slowly dying with no hope ... animals because they are the only ones who can survive nature itself. "She1 cries, "A thousand types are gone:/ I care for nothing, all shall go." (Tennyson 56.3-4). Tennyson wonders whether all his work towards his Christian belief was worthless, if he had false hopes in God, and maybe should have spent his time b...

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