{"id":344,"date":"2022-07-12T13:44:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T17:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iterudio.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2022-07-12T13:44:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T17:44:25","slug":"in-memoriam-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"In Memoriam 16 - Alfred Lord Tennyson\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SniYN4zcAlw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>&#8230; then THIS poem is directly about Arthur Henry Hallam &#8212; &#8220;who died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in Vienna in 1833, aged 22.&#8221; (Thank you Google and probably wikipedia)<br \/><br \/>Published in 1850 &#8211; which is the same year Alfred Tennyson married Emily Sellwood. Arthur Hallam&#8217;s death would have been 3 or 4 years earlier &#8211; so the &#8220;love&#8221; being lost was his best friend.<br \/><br \/>The English has a LOT of words &#8211; and also a LOT of meanings\/connotations for single words. SO &#8220;love&#8221; gets used a lot in different contexts &#8211; allowing for multiple interpretations.<br \/><br \/>Any &#8220;close reading&#8221; requires a consideration of the society in which the author is writing &#8211; e.g. ancient Greek men talking about &#8220;love&#8221; is much different than Victorian England men talking about &#8220;love.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>An internet commentary speculated that Arthur Hallam and Alfred Tennyson were such close friends that if Mr Hallam hadn&#8217;t died that Alfred Tennyson may never have married &#8211; which is simply ridiculous.<br \/><br \/>Yes, they were very close &#8211; but any sense of &#8220;modern homoeroticism&#8221; is being inserted by modern readers. Arthur Hallam was engaged to Tennyson&#8217;s younger sister (obviously before his untimely death). Alfred Tennyson wouldn&#8217;t meet his future wife for a couple years after Hallam&#8217;s death &#8211; as mentioned earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For MOST of human history the idea that it possible to &#8220;love&#8221; someone in a &#8220;non sexual manner&#8221; has been a given. Obvioulsy &#8220;love&#8221; and &#8220;sex&#8221; are NOT synonyms &#8211; so if Arthur Hallam had lived Tennyson probably wouldn&#8217;t have written &#8220;In Memoriam&#8221; but he still would have married Emily Sellwood.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Now you can argue about which form of &#8220;love&#8221; is strongest if you like &#8211; but the point (here at least) is that it is possible to love a &#8220;best friend&#8221; one way and a &#8220;romantic partner&#8221; another way. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>ANYWAY &#8211; what I really learned from reciting this poem is that I have no rhythm &#8211; or maybe my &#8220;rhythm&#8221; is from 1950\/60 crooners (Crosby\/Sinatra\/Darin) and not Victorian England \ud83d\ude09 <br \/><br \/>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BjT6k8BGjEM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; then THIS poem is directly about Arthur Henry Hallam &#8212; &#8220;who died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in Vienna in 1833, aged 22.&#8221; (Thank you Google and probably wikipedia) Published in 1850 &#8211; which is the same year Alfred Tennyson married Emily Sellwood. Arthur Hallam&#8217;s death would have been 3 or 4 years earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}