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it is written as an epithalamium on and for the occassion of his sister Cecilia Tennyson's marriage with Edmund Lushington.The poem moves away from grief to the acceptance of his friend?Hallam's death.As Tennyson himself points out,In Memoriam "begins with fueneral ends with a marriage-begins with death and ends with promise of a new life....".

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