Authors: Veni Labhaniya
Abstract: The nineteenth century experienced major changes to social and intellectual and religious beliefs because scientific progress together with industrial growth brought about scientific progress and industrial development. This paper presents a detailed social analysis of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam A.H.H., which shows how the poem represents the Victorian times religious crisis and changing human relations with nature. The study examines the poem as a socio-cultural document which reveals how people of that time period feared about religion and scientific progress and their search for meaning in life. The paper demonstrates how Tennyson used nature to show the battle between traditional religious systems and new scientific knowledge. The study shows how literature enables people to comprehend social change by analyzing the poem within its historical and social background.
