Reading Tennyson is like stepping aboard the world's strangest roller coaster. The title of the ride looks to be safe enough, but when the cart-man straps on the safety belt you're jolted in a way that you did not even know was a direction. It's not down or up, left or right. It is an adventure to in-side yourself as seen through the life of another. You're caught off card, and then you're calmed down. …
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…I hesitate to close my discussion on Tennyson; I don't want the inspiration to come to an end. Tennyson stimulates my soul, he moves my spirit, and he takes my mind to a new place with every verse. Tennyson will forever live on in me, as he lives on in so many others. He will continue to be timeless and classic, ever changing and ever present, a man sat apart, and a man set inside.