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ABOUT THE POET

LIST OF WORKS

POEM

SUMMARY

POETIC DEVICES

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born

on August 5, 1809 in Somersby,

Lincolnshire. He began to write

poetry at an early age in the

style of Lord Byron. After

spending four years in school he

was tutored at home. Tennyson

then studied at Trinity College,

Cambridge, where he joined the

literary club 'The Apostles' and

met Arthur Hallam, who became

his closest friend. Tennyson

published Poems, Chiefly Lyrical,

in 1830.INDEX

His book, “Poems “(1833), received

unfavorable reviews, and Tennyson ceased to

publish for nearly ten years. Hallam died

suddenly on the same year which was a heavy

blow to Tennyson. He began to write "In

Memoriam", an elegy for his lost friend - the

work took seventeen years. "The Lady of

Shalott", "The Lotus-eaters" ,"Morte d'Arthur"

and "Ulysses" appeared in 1842 in the two-

volume Poems and established his reputation

as a writer. After marrying Emily Sellwood, the

couple settled in Farringford in 1853. From

there the family moved in 1869 to Aldworth,

Surrey. During these later years he produced

some of his best poems Tennyson died at

Aldwort on October 6, 1892 and was buried in

the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. INDEX

The Dying Swan The Kraken Mariana Lady Clara Vere de Vere The Lotos-Eaters The Lady of Shalott The Palace of Art St. Simeon Stylites Locksley Hall Tithonus Vision of Sin The Two Voices Ulysses The Princess Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal Tears, Idle Tears Maud The Charge of the Light Enoch Arden

The Brook Flower in the crannied wall The Window Harold Idylls of the King Locksley Hall Sixty Years After Crossing the Bar The Foresters Kapiolani

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I come from haunts

of coot and hern,

I make a sudden

sally

And sparkle out

among the fern,

To bicker down a

valley.INDEX

By thirty hills I

hurry down,

Or slip between the

ridges,

By twenty thorpes, a

little town,

And half a hundred

bridges.INDEX

Till last by Philip's

farm I flow

To join the brimming

river,

For men may come

and men may go,

But I go on for ever.INDEX

I chatter over stony

ways,

In little sharps and

trebles,

I bubble into eddying

bays,

I babble on the pebbles.

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With many a curve my banks I fret

By many a field and fallow,

And many a fairy foreland set

With willow-weed and mallow.

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I chatter, chatter, as

I flow

To join the brimming

river,

For men may come

and men may go,

But I go on for ever.

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I wind about, and in

and out,

With here a blossom

sailing,

And here and there a

lusty trout,

And here and there a

grayling, INDEX

And here and there a

foamy flake

Upon me, as I travel

With many a silvery

waterbreak

Above the golden

gravel,

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And draw them all

along, and flow

To join the brimming

river

For men may come

and men may go,

But I go on for ever.

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I steal by lawns and

grassy plots,

I slide by hazel

covers;

I move the sweet

forget-me-nots

That grow for happy

lovers.INDEX

I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,

Among my skimming swallows;

I make the netted sunbeam dance

Against my sandy shallows.

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I murmur under moon

and stars

In brambly

wildernesses;

I linger by my

shingly bars;

I loiter round my

cresses;INDEX

And out again I curve and flow

To join the brimming river,

For men may come and men may go,

But I go on for ever.

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In this poem, the brook refers itself to a living being. This is called personification. The word 'I' explains it. The brook suddenly emerges from a

place frequently visited by coots and herons. It falls down a valley making a quarrelling noise. The poet

uses numerical references like 'thirty hills', 'twenty thorpes' and ' half hundred bridges'. The brook joins the brimming river at Philip's farm. The line 'For men may come and men may go, but I go on

forever' explains the brook is immortal Also this line is a refrain. The brook makes a chattering noise as it passes over stony ways and in little sharps and

trebles it bubbles into eddying bays.

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The brook's bank passes through many curves and fields along plants. The river keeps chattering in order to meet the brimming river. It carries many things like blossoms, lusty trout, grayling, foamy

flakes, forget me not etc. The brooks gently crosses the lawn and grassy plots and slides by

hazel covers. It moves by the sweet forget me not that grow for happy lovers.The river does many actions. It slips, slides, glooms,and glances. The

swallows skim through the top of the brook and the water makes the sunbeam dance by acting as nets against it's sandy shallows. While passing through thorny bushes, the brooks murmurs it loiters round the cresses. And finally the brook curves to flow

into the brimming river.

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These terms are known as figures of speech.

•Refrain is the repetition of a word or a phrase. For example, 'For men may come and men may go'.

•Alliteration is the repetition of the initial consonant sound. For example, 'I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance'.

•Onomatopoeia is a figure of speech that represents the sound associated with an object. For example, 'babble'.

•Imagery is a description which evokes readers senses of sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste. Metaphors and similes are also considered as imagery. For example, "I babble on the pebbles".

•Personification is a literary device that assigns human qualities to inanimate and abstract things. For example, "I make the netted sunbeam dance".

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