Although not as direct as Arnold, pieces of Tennyson's broken faith can be found hidden in the lines of his poems “The Lotus Eaters” and “Ulysses”. Tennyson's poetry reflected the way Victorians felt lost, alone without the trust in a divine being dictating their lives. Unlike Arnold, he had an air of hope peppered throughout his melancholy. In “The Lotus Eaters” Tennyson opens with Odysseus and his sailors stranded on the island that the Odyssey knows is inhabited by a people who do nothing but eat the fruit of a plant that puts you in a euphoric state of lethargy. Here his speaker is conflicted between his Victorian side, his hopes to return home and fulfill his duty to his kingdom and his family, and his desire to ignore humanity and remain in the land of the Lotus, where everything seems to be, but in reality nothing. AND. This alludes to the Victorians continuing to hold onto their beliefs even though they no longer had a basis. Eating the lotus is described as a gesture that involves abandoning external reality, to live instead in “a land where all things always seemed the same.” Through delicately crafted figurative language, Tennyson also alludes to the idea of ​​living in this world free from turmoil as cowardice. This demonstrated his desire to keep things as they are, but knowing that change in life is necessary and that he must accommodate the desire to move forward in