Lord Alfred Tennyson

Within the Victorian EraElizabeth Abeles-Allison

3rd Hour

Victorian Era (1830-1880)

• Economic and Military• Unstable Center-England• Industrial Revolution• The World• Change for Progress

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Biography

•1809-1892

•Cambridge

•Inherited Epilepsy

•Hallam-Younger Sister

•Turning Point

•In Memoriam

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Important Works

• “The Lady of Shalott”• “The Passing of Arthur”• “Crossing the Bar”• “The Kraken”

•“Ulysses”•“Tears, Idle Tears”

“Ulysses”

•Plagued •Arrival Home•Tennyson

Opinion

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Summary

•Finale•The Moral•Tennyson

Moral

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Summary

• Reminiscing

Line 19“Yet all experience is an arch where

through/ Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades/ forever and forever when I move.”

Summary

Line 24“Life piled on

life”

• Grey Spirit• Leaves Son• Off to live

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SummaryLine 49“Free hearts…Free foreheads”

Line 53“Not unbecoming men that strove with

gods.”

Line 70• Ulysses- “to strive, to seek, to find, and

not to yield.”

“Tears, Idle Tears”• Balance

Line 8“Sad as the last which reddens over

one that sinks with all we love below the verge;”

• Boundary & Border

Summary

Line 15 “The casement slowly grows a

glimmering square; so sad, so strange, the days that are no more.”

Review

•Contribution

•Important Works

•Themes

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Bibliography• Pfordresher, V. Veidmanis, McDonnell, John, Gladys, Helen.

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