...to be utterly unable to understand this. We next see the Delicacy of true sorrow, when he says : ' I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel.' Words do it wrong: they only 'half reveal' while they 'half conceal' it. Shakespeare has a similar...

...round and round, using every sharp point as a facet to reflect some ray of light ; he says indeed, "I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel." And he speaks, in some of those fine wordpaintings in rich frames, of "darkening tho sanctity of his...

...they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. / SOMETIMES HOLD IT HALF A SIN. [/« Memoriam, V.] I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold; But that large grief...

...below the darkeu'd eyes; With morning wakes the will, and cries, " Thou shalt not be the fool of loss." I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcoties, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the...

...fail in truth And in thy wisdom make me wise. / SOME TIMES HOLD IT HALt A SIN. [/« Memorial*, V.] I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the...for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured langnage lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcoties, numbing pain. In words, like weeds,...

...Victoria to offer Tennyson the laureateship. To Speak About Grief Language fails to express grief. I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...Nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. The "sorrow of language" writes Merleau-Ponty, is that words cannot express all we want to say. How...

...feelings and thoughts, and far more difficult to convey those of others. Tennyson was right when he wrote: For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. I am writing in a rather informal but hopefully objective manner. Many of those who have played an...

...the rocks as they do Who know how to ride this tumult safely And play its perils like a game. (22) But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. (5.5-8) Sarton's poem is no "mechanic exercise." She quickly abandons the meter and rhyme of "A Farewell"...

...reiteration, the animating principle of such poems as the Rubaiyat and Tennyson's In Memoriam, where we find "A use in measured language lies; / The sad mechanic exercise, / Like dull narcotics, numbing pain." The poems are in fairly uncomplicated language, except for no. 507, which situates its "mountain" in...

...the wild sky') where 'Ring out the old, ring in the new' signals brightening hope. Although fearing it 'half a sin/ To put in words the grief I feel', Tennyson needed 'the sad mechanic exercise'. Canto vn gives us the poet's desolation with terrible...