the brook

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The Poet

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• Alfred Tennyson

is a English poet, often

regarded as the

chief representative of the

Victorian age in

poetry.

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• Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born

on August 5, 1809 in Somersby,

Lincolnshire. Alfred 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, which included the popular "Mariana".

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• 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.

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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

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Partial list of works– 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

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Partial list of works• Flower in the crannied wall • The Window • Harold• Idylls of the King)• Locksley Hall Sixty Years After • Crossing the Bar • The Foresters • Kapiolani • 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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• Tennyson died at

Aldwort on October 6, 1892 and

was buried in

the Poets' Corner in

Westminster Abbey.

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The Poem

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Summary

• The poet has realistically drawn a parallelism between the journey of the brook with the life of a man. The poet says, as in the childhood the a child is very agile, energetic and lively, like that, only the brook in the beginning stage of its life is very powerful, enhancing and it keeps on flowing with a great rush and enthusiasm through out its life. It falls from great heights and menders around the wavy path, and when it approaches on plain it becomes very slow and continues to flow eternally. Like the brook, a man toward the end of his life becomes slow in his moves and ultimately dies and also emerges with its final destination but it never ends to flow........

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POETIC DEVICES:

• ALLITERATION: sudden sally, Half a hundred, skimming swallows, golden gravel, willow-weeds, fairy foreland, field and fallow

• ONOMATOPOEIA: bicker, babble, chatter, murmur • RHYMING SCHEME: abab • REFRAIN: For men may come and may go, but I go on forever. • REPETITION: And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there

a grayling. I chatter, chatter • PERSONIFICATION: The brook has been personified • SYMBOL: Fish=source of life, forget-me-nots=eternal love•

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I come from haunts of coot and hern,I make a sudden

sallyAnd sparkle out among the fern,

To bicker down a valley.

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By thirty hills I hurry down,

Or slip between the ridges,

By twenty thorpes, a little town,And half a

hundred bridges.

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Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the

brimming river,For men may come and men

may go,But I go on for

ever.

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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 fretBy many a field

and fallow,And many a fairy

foreland setWith 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,

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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.

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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;

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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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