His poems rely on intimate experiences with geography and history, layering encounters in the present with a keen awareness of the past.

The poem also relied on the war as a way to connect to Eliot's idea that there was a united humanity.

The poem relies on many sound-based techniques, including cognate variation and chiasmus.

Tennyson's poems traditionally rely on the use of visual imagery for effect.

The poem relies on a first-person narration style similar to "Ode to Psyche".

The poem, as it developed from its original form, incorporated various traditional poetic techniques and partly relied on the poetic metre of those like Petrarch.

The poem actively relied on "English" techniques and language.

According to William Wimsatt, nature is connected to humanity, and the poem relies on the river in order to talk about childhood.

The later poems rely less heavily on succinct clusters of images, but the quality of the images is consistently high.

The poem relies on a similar theme as Tennyson's "The Lotos-Eaters" in that it talks about a living death state.