Curious analogy in Tennyson's "Love and Death"

[milo]

you can't love christ if your dead :HUH:
here's another thing with poetry like this, can a person go to heaven then be sent to hell for breaking one of heavens rules or does heaven have no rules :HUH:
i see that god is love but that doesn't make it good eatings. i do like the sonnet but not the intent. will god love me should i end up in hell? if god is love who is death? surely not the devil. why is death the shadow and not the light that leads us to god?

I am not christian but tennyson was, the answers to all of these questions are in the poem, you have to read it.