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Comment 12 of 12, added on March 24th, 2008 at 12:15 PM.
i think its nice but sad ,i want to know more about it.
amal from Palestine
Comment 11 of 12, added on October 4th, 2007 at 1:13 PM.
The poem is a lament with the diction being simple. It has four quatrains that have a slow and regular rhythm. It can also be described as a lyric poem as the words seem to have a musical quality bout them, it also expresses the poet’s thoughts and feelings .
‘Break, Break, Break’ opens with an apostrophe (this means that it is an address to a subject ending with an exclamation mark. There are three heavy beats per line, this shows that the poet can barely articulate his grief.
The grief appears to be affecting his work and because of this he feels ‘cut-off’ from others. there is a bitterness there when the poet notices the small boy ha no troubles at this time in his life. Basically saying ‘God help them when they are older”.
Jenna from United Kingdom
Comment 10 of 12, added on July 13th, 2006 at 8:05 AM.
Tennyson seems to recall his childhood days in this poem,he remembers the way he enjoyed with his sister n his close friend Arthur,he shows all this lively to us in this poem through fisherman's boy character,it shows his presence of mind at the same time he shows deep grief forthe loss of his Friend Arthur,he shows the deep love that he had on Arthur.
abu from India
Comment 9 of 12, added on June 9th, 2006 at 1:04 AM.
i like this poem
Monique from Greece
Comment 8 of 12, added on November 29th, 2005 at 7:28 AM.
I thought that the poem was very sad and the source of the sadness was because his friend got killed out at sea. Tennyson expressed his feelings in this poems creation. Words he used to indicate death were “vanished”, “never come back” and he uses imagery with “cold grey stones” because people think associate death with coldness and grey.
The feelings of the loss of a friend shown in this poem go very deep and by reading the poem you can tell he wrote it when he was emotional about the subject and was reflecting on their childhood happiness and memories in the second stanza shown by the words saying that he was playing with his sister and singing in the bay which is in contrast to the rest of the poems bleak mood. In the third stanza he expresses his longing the touch of his friends vanished hand, and the sound of his friend’s voice.
Break, Break, Break shows alliteration, repetition, onomatopoeia and assonance. It uses alliteration with the three B’s (Break, Break, Break). It also uses repetition in the form of saying Break, three times. It uses onomatopoeia because the word Break, sounds a bit like something breaking. Assonance is also used because it uses 3 of the same vowel sounds (Break, Break, Break). Break, Break, Break sets the bleak mood for the poems because it is dull words and sounds angry when you say it. Also a technique Tennyson has used it by rhyming every second and 4th line in the Stanzas. This helps the poem to flow.
Jack Grififn from Australia
Comment 7 of 12, added on November 10th, 2005 at 4:09 AM.
i like the poem because it is very nice and appreciating.............!
aneekah from United States
Comment 6 of 12, added on June 20th, 2005 at 1:18 AM.
'Break, break, break' is influenced by the poet's grief over the death of his close friend, Arthur Henry Hallam, a theme which Tennyson further explored in 'In Memoriam A.H.H.' which was written over a period of seventeen years.
Anja from Australia
Comment 5 of 12, added on June 2nd, 2005 at 10:27 AM.
i was the person whose visitor number was million and missed the contract with you hjj
abed alkareem akhalabi from Israel
Comment 4 of 12, added on April 13th, 2005 at 1:50 PM.
It seems to me that this also a struggle with his own faith, since he discusses the innocence and carefree actions of children, and then mentions the touch of a vanished hand (seems like God to me) and a voice that is still reminds me of a "still small voice".
Erin from United States
Comment 3 of 12, added on March 26th, 2005 at 3:54 PM.
this was an intresting poem. i saw the feelings of the author and went deep inside. but i do have one question... what does it mean?????
clyde from Andorra
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i think its nice but sad ,i want to know more about it.
amal from Palestine