...THE SERVICE OF KALI Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravin, shrieked against his creed . . . Are God and Nature then at strife That Nature lends...types are gone; I care for nothing; all shall go.' Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memo/Yarn, LV-LVI NATURE'S REDNESS AND THE ABUSE OF COMMON SPEECH We move...

...secret meaning in her deeds, And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear . . . "So careful of the type?" but no. From scarped cliff...types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go" ... Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm...

...the despairing poet, and to his troubled audience wracked by the assault of science upon their faith: 'So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped cliff...types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go.' (56.1-4) No other major English poem stands in a more central relation to its culture or to the life...

...Heraclitus, who utters 'solemn, unadorned, unlovely words' that sound and echo for 'a thousand years.' From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A...thousand types are gone; I care for nothing, all shall go ...' In Memoriam, 56.2-4 As Tennyson becomes a scribe of the 'terrible Muses,' the new astronomy and...

...preserves neither the single life nor that of the species.101 In the words of Alfred Lord Tennyson: 'From scarped cliff and quarried stone / She cries,...thousand types are gone: / I care for nothing, all shall go.'102 Tennyson here suggests that the extinction of previously existing plant and animal species...

...the type she seems, So careless of the single life . . . So careful of the type? but no. From scaped cliff and quarried stone She cries, "A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go." Given Nature "red in tooth and claw" — this famous phrase has its source here — nothing seems to...

...secret from the latest moon." 68 The purpose of the Divinity and the course of "Nature" seemed at odds: Are God and Nature then at strife That Nature lends...types are gone; I care for nothing; all shall go' Nature, red in tooth and claw O life as futile, then, as frail! O for thy voice to soothe and bless!...

...theme even before the Origin was published. Famously, in his poem "In Memoriam," Alfred Tennyson asked: Are God and Nature then at strife. That Nature lends...types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go.' Tennyson found an answer in a Butler-like creative process leading on to higher types and thus justifying...

...hope.26 Worse, palaeontologists have shown that even species are not preserved from mass destruction: 'So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped cliff...types are gone; I care for nothing, all shall go. The next thought, terrifying but inevitable, must be: do we humans too belong to this dismal scene...

...but one to bear, I falter where I firmly trod. . . . LVI So careful of the type? but no. From scorped cliff and quarried stone She cries, "A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go." Tennyson's grimly pessimistic view of nature was due in large part to the fact that he looked at the...