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Jan 1, 2016 · Nature is a world of strife and conflict and violence – ‘red in tooth and claw’ as Tennyson memorably puts it (the first use of this famous expression). This certainly prefigures the Darwinian view of nature, but Tennyson had learnt of nature’s brutality from geology, rather than evolution.
Tennyson depicts nature as "red in tooth and claw," contrasting with the Victorian notion of a benevolent God. This critique aligns with the scientific observation of the struggle for existence in the natural world.
The poem In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is an elegy for his Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died of cerebral haemorrhage at the age of twenty-two years, in Vienna in 1833. [1] .
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- 1850
Feb 11, 2010 · Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed. And love Creation's final law —. Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw. With ravine, shriek'd against his creed —.
Mar 1, 2016 · The phrase ‘Nature red in tooth and claw’ is taken from the famous ‘dinosaur cantos’ of the poem, which engage with questions of faith and meaning which had been thrown up by geological discoveries in the mid-nineteenth century. Its most famous lines, though, are undoubtedly, ”Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have ...
After Darwin, Tennyson's phrase "red in tooth and claw" was used frequently to describe the new evolutionary view of nature, in which humans were of course included.
Aug 6, 2023 · In Memoriam A.H.H. is a long poem by the English poet Alfred Tennyson, completed in 1849. It is a requiem for the poet's Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in Vienna in 1833, but it is also much more.
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