Expert Approved Answer Death has made the speaker upset since it has separated him from his companion. This question was inspired by Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "In Memoriam." The speaker of this poem was mourning the death of a friend. The speaker is not just any ordinary person but one who is very much like you or me. He is a poet and he uses the first person to address his readers directly, as we do when writing poetry or prose. He is also very sad because his friend has died. You can tell this by reading between the lines of his words. The speaker says he will "write [his] grief away" which means he plans to put his feelings about the death into words. Finally, the speaker is angry because his friend has died. He is furious at the God who has taken him away from life. The speaker blames God for his loss because before his friend died, they were both happy and enjoying themselves. Now that the speaker no longer has this part of his life, he feels incomplete.