Tennyson

[...]he can construct only with difficulty a narrative of present process that looks back toward past processes. According to Geric, Miller posited fixed, unchanging gender relations founded in divine creation. [...]in forging the entire sequence of lyrics into the vision conveyed at the end, Tennyson remasculinized his poem and himself, and it is no coincidence, Alfano contends, that this work (unlike lyrics dismembered from The Princess) is often printed in its entirety in classroom anthologies. Rather than turning away from human rot in disgust or fear, Miller adds, humans should affirm the new life literally born (or hatched) from the human dead body. [...]resituating what Julia Kristeva defines as an experience of the abject (which elicits twinned horror and fascination), Miller interrogates the entire literary tradition that equates death with narrative closure.