I'm giving ! a common motif in the poetry of this unit is death. how do the various poets address the element of death? how is death used as a motif? use examples from at least three of the poems studied to show how death is expressed as a motif throughout these pieces of literature. use the following list to recall the poems studied in this unit: "the lady of shalott" – tennyson "ulysses" – tennyson in memoriam, a. h.h. – tennyson "crossing the bar" – tennyson "my last duchess" – robert browning "sonnet 43" – elizabeth barrett browning "pied beauty" – hopkins "spring and fall" –hopkins "dover beach" –arnold "ah, are you digging on my grave? " –hardy