Tenneyson의 "In Memoriam" : 굳은 신앙을 향한 발걸음 to Find a Strong Faith in Honest Doubt

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Victorian is an age of faith and doubt, hope and despair engendered by science, utilitarianism and religion. Although the Victorian age is a progressive age in every area of intellectual life, Victorians felt the shock from new discoveries of science and biblical history. They were faced with serious doubts of the existence of God. Tennyson likewise faced the challenges and disappointments of the Victorian new world. He borrowed many scientific concepts from Lyell, Chambers & others. Throughout the poem, Tennyson struggled with religious faith and doubts, with images, symbols and metaphors. The poet also showed some tendency towards Broadchurchmen in his religious view. Tennyson along with the Victorians experienced the conflicts of spiritual diseases and utilitarian pleasures. Many intellects of this age were divided between emotion and reason. This paper is to explore the stages of despair, doubt and hope in the search of immoral Love in honest doubt.
In Memoriam is an elegy following tradition of Milton's Lycidas and Shelley's Adonais. Tennyson's In Memoriamhas serious, reflective thoughts towards death, loss, despair, and regret for the vanished past of Hallam's death. Hallam was his bosom friend and mentor in life.
In Memoriam, the poet's journey for a strong faith is in some sense a way of soul to justify his strong faith and to get immortality and love "by faith, faith alone." Through the strange and mysterious trance in readingold noble letters from Hallam, Tennyson meets Hallam "spirit to spirit." In spite of his emotional ups and downs, Tennyson gradually and steadily recovered from doubt, death, and despair to life, hope and love over three Christmas' after Hallam's death. The poet focused on Hallam's death as a mental pillar in his aesthetic life not as a simple meaningless death. Tennyson finds a stronger ,faith in "strong Son of God, immortal Love, Jesus Christ"by making Hallam the divine being. In this sense, this elegy over his personal loss is changed into a Victorian spiritual dilemma. He leads us from the particularity of his private sorrow to universal sorrow and hope. This poem is Tennyson's spiritual journey to his salvation and artistic integrity to affirm immortality and love "strong Son of God, immoral Love."