Question

In In Memoriam, A. H. H. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson,the speaker uses the pronoun I. What does this reveal about the speaker?

Answer 1

If the speaker is using the pronoun "I," that means they must be telling the story in the first person. They appear in the story and tell it from their own point of view.

Answer 2

Using the pronoun "I" reveals that the speaker is making an account of his personal life as an "autobiography"; the poem inspects the author's profound grief after his close Cambridge friend death, which makes it sort of a requiem, expressing a mood of his own, a trend the author developed through several other poems dealing with personal and introspective subjects.