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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