Question

Read the excerpt.

Thy voice is on the rolling air;
I hear thee where the waters run;
Thou standest in the rising sun,
And in the setting thou art fair.

In this verse from In Memoriam, A. H. H. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson,where does the speaker feel the presence of his friend?

Answer 1

The correct answer is : nature

Answer 2

The correct answer is in nature.

Indeed, Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote this poem in 1849, after a long period of deep mourning due to the death of his poet friend Arthur Henry Hallam. As a Victorian poet, Tennyson was heavily influenced by Romanticism in his appreciation of nature as a force of transcendence.