I am going a long way | |
With these thou seëst—if indeed I go | 65 |
(For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)— | |
To the island-valley of Avilion; | |
Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, | |
Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies | |
Deep-meadow’d, happy, fair with orchard lawns | 70 |
And bowery hollows crown’d with summer sea, | |
Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.” |
Curious about what had been left out of the Tennyson quotation here, I found that it was Arthur's doubt. Shakespeare also incorporates doubt:
So have I heard and do in part believe it.
-copied from here.
Such doubt signals the transition to the modern period expressed by contemporary novels and sf.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteThe works of Lord Tennyson are among those I've mentally listed in the recesses of my that I SHOULD read.
Sean