... the next section he contradicts the last by seeing the sun and stars as slowly dying with no hope for rebirth, "The stars," she whispers, "blindly run; A web is wov"n across the sky; From our waste places comes a cry, And murmurs from the dying sun: (Tennyson 3.5-8). Tennyson sees the geological and biological discoveries of his day, he knows of Spencer's theory ... had to give up all of their knowledge from before. Tennyson in dealing with his own grief gives a perspective of the worries in his culture on death. (Damrosch 1165-66) Robert Browning was an artistic genius that was self co...

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