Damian Clay

English

11 May, 11:26

Read ths excerpt from "Break, Break, Break" by Alfred Loryd Tennyson. What is the theme of the poem?

Break, break, break,

On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!

And I would that my tongue could utter

The thoughts that arise in me.

O well for the fisherman's boy,

That he shouts with his sister at play!

O well for the sailor lad,

That he sings in his boat on the bay!

And the stately ships go on

To their haven under the hill:

But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,

And the sound of a voice that is still!

Break, break, break,

At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!

But the tender grace of a day that is dead

Will never come back to me.

Life seems like the endless ocean.

One man's grief cannot stop progress.

A moment lost in time does not return.

People do not understand the true meaning of life.