I would like to write about famous Victorian poet Alfred Tennyson and his famous work.
So first we throw some light on poet. first we talk about this era.
Victorian Age:-
The period of 1820 to 1900 known as the age of ‘victoria’. During this period Queen Victoria developed the much literary forms. So , this age in English literature known as the ‘victorian Age’. During that period many great writers gave their best contribution to English age as a gift. , Browning, Dickens, Thackray, Meredith, Carlyle, Macaulay and Ruskin there are some great stars of the age.Tennyson the prominent poet of the age.So, now let’s we discussing about Tennyson in detailed. Lord Alfred Tennyson was born in 1809.The son of a clergyman he was born at his father’s living atsomersby in Lincolnshire. After some schooling at Louth, Which was not agreeable to him. He was taken education from the Cambridge. University, at the university he was a wholly conventional person.
Before talk about poem I throw some light on poet.
Alfred Tennyson:-
Born:-August 6, 1809
DIED:-October 6, 1892
NOTABLE WORKS:-
“The Princess”
“Ulysses” “Mariana”
“In Memoriam”
“Idylls of the King”
“Maud”
“Locksley Hall”
“The Lotos-Eaters”
“Enoch Arden”
“The Lady of Shalott
He was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, such as "Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears" and "Crossing the Bar". Much of his verse was based on classical mythological themes, such as Ulysses, although In Memoriam A.H.H. was written to commemorate his best friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and fellow student at Trinity College, Cambridge, who was engaged to Tennyson's sister, but died from a brain haemorrhage before they could marry. Tennyson also wrote some notable blank verse including Idylls of the King, "Ulysses", and "Tithonus".
During his career, Tennyson attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little success. A number of phrases from Tennyson's work have become commonplaces of the English language, including "Nature, red in tooth and claw", "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all", "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die", "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure", "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield", "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers", and "The old order changeth, yielding place to new". He is the ninth most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of QuotationsMost of Tennyson’s early education under his father’s direction. Even then he spent 4 unhappy years at the grammar school. His departure in 1827to join his elder brothers at Trinity College Cambridge. He was extraordinary handsome intelligent, humorous and gifted as charming personality, he was at the center of an admiring group of young men knows that then he was interested in poetry and conversation.The only mark he made was to win thechancellor’s medal for a poem onTimbuctoo. Then, He left Cambridge without taking a degree.The history of family is interesting in itself ,but some knowledgeit is also essential for understanding of the themes of his poetry. Madness, Murder, Miserliness, social climbing there are some main themes of the work of Tennyson.It was surprisable thing that he began writing poetry long before he was sent to school; as did most of his talented brothers and sisters. At the early age of18 his first volume published ‘poems by two brothers (1827)’. Now let’s studies further about both poets.
He left Cambridge before he was published a volume of mediocre verse. During the next 20 years he was passed a tranquil existence.During that time he met Arthur Henry Hallam. This was the beginning of 4years of warm friendship between Tennyson and Hallam.
In 1844 he lost his unlucky speculation, but in nick of the time he received Government pension .He was appointedpoet Laureate (1850) in owner to Wordsworth married, and removed to freshwater. Then for the Tennyson ‘Isle of Wight’ became for the next 20 years.
Now let see the poetic career of the Tennyson. At the early age of 18 he collaborated with his elder brother Charles in ‘poems by Two Brothers got the prize.
1). ‘Timbuctoo’ (1829)
2). ‘poems, chiefly Lyricall’ (1830)
Some major features of his poetic work.1830 to 1842 works lyric and legendry narrative type. And 1842volume based on ethical interest. His content of the works mirror of feelings and aspirations of his time.
As a pictorial poet, he follows the example of Keats. His all poem most probably based on ko imagery of nature and other natural elements. His description of each line built our-selves to see the magic of his art and surprisable deep and beautiful scene of the picture of the poem.
Through his all poem he proved himself as a best poet of the age. Hislyrical quality is also best-one.
Really, through the study of poet we can say that he was ‘star poet’ of the age. He was known as demigod of the age.His greatness and richness of his poems in very early age showed theintellectuality and scholarality in him. Hishigh place in the temple of fame in assured. Tennyson was not only the great poet of the “victorian Age”. But,today also he known as in the category of the best homogenized poet.
Let's talk about his major work 'In Memoriam'.
In Memoriam:-ko
It is a requiem for the poet's beloved Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage in Vienna in 1833, aged 22. It contains some of Tennyson's most accomplished lyrical work, and is an unusually sustained exercise in lyric verse. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest poems of the 19th century.
The original title of the poem was "The Way of the Soul", and this might give an idea of how the poem is an account of all Tennyson's thoughts and emotions as he grieves over the death of a close friend. He views the cruelty of nature and mortality in light of materialist science and faith. Owing to its length and its arguable breadth of focus, the poem might not be thought an elegy or a dirge in the strictest formal sense.
The poem is not arranged exactly in the order in which it was written. The prologue, for example, is thought to have been one of the last things written. The earliest material is thought to be that which begins "Fair ship, that from the Italian shore | Saileth the placid ocean-plains" and imagines the return of Hallam's body from Italy. Critics believe, however, that the poem as a whole is meant to be chronological in terms of the progression of Tennyson's grief. The passage of time is marked by the three descriptions of Christmas at different points in the poem, and the poem ends with a description of the marriage of Tennyson's sister.
Poem summary:-
The poem begins as a tribute to and invocation of the “Strong Son of God.” Since man, never having seen God’s face, has no proof of His existence, he can only reach God through faith. The poet attributes the sun and moon (“these orbs or light and shade”) to God, and acknowledges Him as the creator of life and death in both man and animals. Man cannot understand why he was created, but he must believe that he was not made simply to die.
The Son of God seems both human and divine. Man has control of his own will, but this is only so that he might exert himself to do God’s will. All of man’s constructed systems of religion and philosophy seem solid but are merely temporal, in comparison to the eternal God; and yet while man can have knowledge of these systems, he cannot have knowledge of God. The speaker expresses the hope that “knowledge [will] grow from more to more,” but this should also be accompanied by a reverence for that which we cannot know.
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