7. In In Memoriam, A. H. H. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the speaker uses the pronoun I. What does this reveal about the speaker?

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Kelton Barber

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4 June, 08:43

7. In In Memoriam, A. H. H. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the speaker uses the pronoun I. What does this reveal about the speaker?

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Mercedes Nicholson · Answer 1

The speaker had a specific identity. He was A. H.'s friend and this was the way he mourned him. No one else mourned him with those words. No one else shared the same experiences with A. H. The I may be known to the reader but that doesn't matter. The I is expressing his personal grief in his poems.