Dear Lord Tennyson, I hope this letter finds you well. I'm a 16-year-old high school student who has read a lot of your and other Romantic poets' poems and I wanted to tell you that I'm a big fan of your work. I look forward to reading more of your poems in the future. Your poem, Tears, Idle Tears, affected me and connected me more than you could ever imagine. At first, when I read this poem, I was confused about the meaning of the tears. Are they happy tears of memory, sad tears of loss, tears of frustration or confusion, or each of these in turn or together? It was then that I realized that what you did in this poem was truly exceptional and showed your skill as a writer and poet. You were able to capture what it's like to lose someone close to you: the conflicting emotions, the pain, the difficulty of wanting to keep up instead of moving on and letting go. It must have been even more difficult for you, knowing that your friend's death led to the birth of some of your most infamous works, which were later collected and published as In Memoriam in 1850 and included where...