Curious analogy in Tennyson's "Love and Death"

[milo]

i need a cookie to because i see death as dark light and dark, love being light/god death being dark/the shadow, the now you'll be sorry guy. in my christian faith death has always been the doorway to light, though tennyson as it as something lurking.

The shadow of death hangs over man ever since original sin, death has a claim over man, but that claim ends with physical life. Love continues after.