More on Tennyson...

(after reading "Two Voices")

The man, like all great humans, appearts to have a touch of bipolarity. From conversing with suicide he emerges to a final line, "Rejoice! Rejoice!" simply because he saw a family walk to church together. To the heavy question of "what purpose is our suffering if the end is certain death?" we expect this genius to give the answer we ourselves want. We speed read in anticipation. Then he says, isn't the everyday beautiful! We are reminded that he is a poet; we are not exactly disappointed.