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THE BROOK
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IX - A
LORD TENNYSON
About the PoetLord Tennyson (1809-92) was born in Lincolnshire. Poet
Laureate for over 40 years,Tennyson is representative of the Victorian age. His skilled
craftsmanship and nobleideals retained a large audience for poetry in an age when the
novel was engrossingmore and more readers. Tennyson's real contribution lies in
his shorter poems likeThe Lady of Shallot, The Princess, Ulysses, The Palace of Art
etc. His famerests on his perfect control of sound, the synthesis of sound
and meaning, the unionof pictorial and musical.
I come from haunts of coot and hern;I make a sudden sallyAnd sparkle out among the fern,To bicker down a valley.
haunts: places frequently visited bycoot: a type of water bird with a white spot on the foreheadhern: heron, (another kind of water bird)sally:emerge
suddenlybicker: (here) flow down with a lot of noise
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,And here and there a foamy flake
lusty trout: a big freshwater fishgrayling: another type of fish
By thirty hills I hurry down,Or slip between the ridges,By twenty thorpes, a little town,And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's farm I flow
thorpes: a village
To join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever.I chatter over stony ways,In little sharps and trebles,
trebles: high pitched tune
I bubble into eddying bays,I babble on the pebbles.With many a curve my banks I fretBy many a field and fallow,And many a fairy foreland set
eddying: spiral movement of waterbabble: sound made when one talks gailyfallow: land left uncultivated to regain fertilityforeland: piece of land that extends into the sea
With willow-weed and mallow.I chatter, chatter, as I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever.
mallow: plant with hairy stems and leaves and pink, white or purple flowers
Upon me, as I travelWith many a silvery waterbreakAbove the golden gravel, And draw them all along, and flowTo join the brimming river
To join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever.
For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever.I steal by lawns and grassy plots,I slide by hazel coversI move the sweet forget-me-nots
hazel: a small tree or bush with edible nutsforget-me-nots: a type of flower
That grow for happy lovers.I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,Among my skimming swallows;I make the netted sunbeam danceAgainst my sandy shallows.
I murmur under moon and starsIn brambly wildernesses;I linger by my shingly bars;I loiter round my cresses;And out again I curve and flow
shingly: covered with small rounded pebblescresses: pungent leaved plant like a cabbage
'The Brook' is an example of
Tennyson's exquisite versification. He
had a rare capacity for creating music
out of simple words.
Tennyson makes the
brook narrate its history- the history
of its origin, its meandering and
uneven journey through forest and
hills and open spaces until it joins the
'brimming river'.
Summary
The Brook originates from a source on the
highlands filled with mountain forest cover,
where the wild birds of coot and hern are
found in plenty. Its rushing waters touches all
the ferns that grow on its banks till it reaches
the open valley. In its initial rushing journey,
the brook passes through the slopes of thirty
hills and flows beneath more than four dozen
bridges. Then it touches twenty different
villages before reaching a little town.
Before joining the main river, the brook passes by
Phillip's farm. As it comes rushing down the hills, its
waters produces different musical notes as it dashes
against the stony pebbles. The brook makes its
presence felt when it passes through the different
fields of uncultivated lands and many front lying
promontory lands where the weeping willows grow. It
winds about with immense power and its cool pleasant
waters brings all kinds of fresh water fish to a lively
activity.
The brook forms the foamy flake which is
accumulatd at the shores where gravels gather in
plenty, as it continues to travel down the hills.
Sometimes it overflows and incur upon the grassy
plots in the lawns. It even overflows to the gounds
of Hazel plants and touches the sweet forget-me-
nots. All the different sounds and movements that a
stream makes as it flows are charmingly conveyed
through the words used with an exquisite delicacies
of feeling. The trees on the banks, the fish playing
about, the blossoms floating on the water, the
stretches of darkness and light are vividly reflected
on the flowing verse. Above all, the spirit of joy and
freedom comes through eloquently.
Each morning when the sun rises, the rays and the
beams hit the waters and brightly reflect the shiny
dance of the active movement of the brook on the
sandy banks. When evening sets in and total darkness
covers the surroundings of the countryside, the flow of
the brook continues to murmur under the light of the
moon and stars. The effects of the brook on the shores
in the daytime is as much as in the night.
Tennyson significantly relates the brook to
human life to the sad reflection that man's life is
impermanent compared with the relative permanence
of a river (men may come and men may go, But I go on
forever).
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