This article argues that Tennyson’s ‘Tithonus’ (1860) draws together ageing and decay through the poem’s formal wrinkling: moments where metrical disruption, folding, slackness, or concealment correspond to insights derived from perspective of great age — chiming poet’s keynotes disappointment, mourning, loss. I turn ‘Ulysses’ (1842) ‘The Lotos-Eaters’ (1832) poems with a similar, though differ...
