Tears idle Tears by Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Tears Idle Tears" was written after tthe death of Lord Tennyson's close college friend A.H. Hallam. This traumatic incident left a lasting impression of the pain of death on Tennyson and is probably where he got the inspiration from for this poem.
Lord Alfred Tennyson was born in 1809 at Somersby. He was the son of a rector and highly qualified. At Trinity College, Cambridge he was a member of an elite intellectual society whose members were elected for life. He was a man of faith yet had amazing powers of analysis. He was living in a time in England when science and its theories were destroying he hold established religion had over the people. Naturally such a man would be atracted to the objective and analytical ways of science yet he would not compromise his inner faith in religion.
Tennyson was influenced greatly by the Romatics and in fact some call his poetry a continuation of the romatic Idealism during the Victorian Era. He was the Poet Laureate after Wordsworth and rightl...