How does tennyson effectively retell the moment of king arthur’s departure? but now farewell. i am going a long way with these thou seëst if indeed i go (for all my mind is clouded with a doubt) to the island-valley of avilion; . . . . . . . . . . . . . so said he, and the barge with oar and sail moved from the brink, like some full-breasted swan that, fluting a wild carol ere her death, ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood with swarthy webs. long stood sir bedivere revolving many memories, till the hull look’d one black dot against the verge of dawn. and on the mere the wailing died away. –"morte d’arthur,” alfred, lord tennyson 1.tennyson’s version conveys bedivere’s rage as king arthur is taken to his final resting place. 2.tennyson’s version highlights the emotion of the scene w