Topic :- Tennyson as a poet Name :- Rasila jambucha Roll no:- 24 Sem :- 2/M.A. Paper :- The Victorian literature Submitted to :- smt.s.b.Gardi maharaja krishanakumarsinhji Bhavnagar university

born august 6, 1809, at Somersby, in Lincolinshire several man in his family and they have mental and physical problem he studied in Cambridge he also attended trinity college he was appointed poet laureate he was most popular poet in England in his own day his poems also dealt with national affairs his 1842 poems, established his career as writer Victorian poetry touch nature but his poetry touch human nature

His poetical characteristic

Choice of language• Legendary narrative• Signs of the ethnical

interest

Craftsmanship

• “Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro’s the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees” -The Princess

Pictorial quality

• Ornate description of nature scene

• “The large leaves of the sycamore, And fluctuate all the still perfume” -In memoriam

Lyrical quality

• musical and attractive• “Break, break, break,

At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.”

Theme of his poems

Geological time and evolutionary history

Historical/mythological past

Divide self friendship

His personal past

Social and political concerns

Another theme

Having faith and keeping faith

Contemporary science v/s Christian belief

Skepticism and faith

His poems

In memoriam Break break break

Ulysses The princess

The chiefly lyrical

The chiefly lyrical

his first poem published in 1830 it has pictorial effect

Ulysses spoken by single character whose identity is revealed by his own words Ulysses says, it is boring to stay one place dramatic monologue

Break, break, break poem is addressed to sea human establishment about friendship poet constantly hammer not by waves but by thought poet not happy somewhere during the journey in the sea his friend die separation of his friend

In memoriam

published 1850 his greatest poem (elegy ) poem begins with expression of sorrow and grief his beloved friend Henry Hallam died in fever at the age of 22 he doesn’t lost his friend forever but survive or live in his memory