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“Tears, Idle Tears” “Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean.” The previous sentence is a line from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem, “Tears, idle tears.” Just from reading the first sentence in this poem, you get an understanding that the speaker is weeping. Something doleful and saddening has happened in the speaker’s life. However, he claims he does not know what his tears mean. After reading this poem, I got the feeling …

…wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!” The “kisses after death,” that are “on lips that are for others,” is the way of the speaker saying, she is gone away, for someone else to find and love, gone to God. From the above stanza we know that he has felt a deep first love, with the woman who has died. “The days that are no more!” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**