Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The main theme of the poem "Ring Out, Wild Bells" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is Renewal. This is apparent in the opening stanza where the poet writes: The year is dying in the night;...

A "critical appreciation," or critical analysis, consists of a discussion of themes, thesis, structure, literary devices including elements, which are common to all specimens of the literary type,...

Alfred Lord Tennyson was a Victorian writer. The Victorian period's establishment revolved around Queen Victoria. The works from this period changed dramatically from the beginning (1837 to 1870)...

Here is the poem: Break, Break, Break Break, break, break,On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!And I would that my tongue could utterThe thoughts that arise in me.O well for the fisherman's boy,That he...

A summary of Tennyson's "The Brook" is a very straightforward thing once you realize that the poetic voice, or the speaker, in this simple allegorical poem is the personified brook (who may be...

Rhyme scheme is defined by looking at the last word of each line of poetry. In regards to the poem in question, "The Oak" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the last word of each line of poetry is as...

"The Lotos-Eaters" alludes to the encounter with the lotus eaters had by Odysseus and his crew in Homer's The Odyssey. The speaker tells of the lotus eaters approaching Odysseus's ship and the way...

While Victorian interest in medievalism does depart from Romantic poetry, it cannot be overlooked that Romantics, such as Keats and Coleridge, did use medieval themes in their poetry. For examples...

Often it is easy to underestimate the intelligence of Alfred Lord Tennyson due to the sheer beauty of his verse. The key to reading and understanding the poem is to realize that the most important...

Let's look at what an autobiography is so that we can decide how to attempt one from a brook's point of view. An autobiography is a self-written story of a person's life. Knowing this, we have to...

Tennyson, born in 1809, came of age during the time of heightening power for the Romantic poets, beginning with William Blake, who lived from 1757 to 1827, and ending with John Keats, who lived...

Although both Tennyson and Browning are important Victorian poets, they differ in background and style. First, Tennyson was a member of the British upper classes with wealthy grandparents, but due...

On one level, this poem could be read as an actual depiction of an eagle that employs some figurative language to achieve a more compelling and dramatic effect. On another level, this poem can be...

These are all effective in creating images in the poem and in establishing physical point of view. He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the...

In Memoriam A. H. H. by Tennyson is a vast work that reveals characteristics of Victorian poetic theory in myriad ways. A small sampling here that will give guidance as to Tennyson's implementation...

Given that a critical analysis is based upon a reader's own personal response to a text, any given text will, assuredly, bring about many different responses. In regard to Tennyson's poem "The...

Tennyson wrote this poem based on an episode of The Odyssey where Odysseus and his men stay on an island where the people who live there are subject to a strange and powerful plant that reduces...

This poem has a great deal to do with the theme of identity, and in particular with the desire of the speaker of this poem to isolate himself in a world of art, private sensation and stasis. The...

The title of Tennyson's "Morte d'Arthur" quite effectively sums up the basic subject of the poem: it follows the end of the Arthurian legend (the title quite literally means "Death of Arthur" in...

Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem The Brook is a poem about perseverance and presence and how time may affect many things but nature will still persist even as things may change. It is significant that...

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In the poem "Morte D'Arthur" by Tennyson, Sir Bedivere had been mourning the loss of the old way of life of the Knights of the Round Table as he was saying that "the true old times are dead" and...

In his works, Tennyson combined his interest for science with his (unorthodox) Christian faith. Tennyson was particularly interested in geology and biology. He was influenced by the elaboration of...

I think that one particular point of view that might be needed in any comparison between both poems is the fundamental approach taken in each to the natural world. In Tennyson's poem, there is a...

Armstrong's analysis makes sense when it is placed in the intellectual tradition where Victorian poets like Tennyson followed their Romantic counterparts and preceded the Modernists. In seeing the...

In poetry, there is usually one controlling metaphor and a tension that is set up between two ideas. Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem, "Break, break, break," sets up such a tension between the...

This poem by the "great rhythmic teacher and prophet...of a Spiritual Universe" is melancholic as were his early poems. Also, it calls to mind the reflection of Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Nature...

As the poem opens, Oenone is sad and heartbroken that Paris, her husband, has left her for Helen. The nature around her reflects her depression by falling silent and drooping, just as she is doing....

Let us remember Arthur's final speech before he leaves Camelot on the barge that will take him to Avilion to be restored. Note what he says to Sir Bedivere, the only knight he is in attendance on...

When Tennyson succeeds Wordsworth as Poet Laureate, his words about Wordsworth gain even more significance and meaning. Overall, the words speak to the idea that Wordsworth sought to construct a...

"Ring out, wild bells" starts with a plea for change, addressed to nature itself: "The year is dying in the night; / Ring out, wild bells, and let him die." It pauses on an image of snow, which is...

In Alfred Lord Tennyson’s famous poem “The Lady of Shalott,” a fair maiden is trapped in a tower weaving, cursed if she ever stops her work to gaze out her window. Light bears symbolic significance...

Alfred Lord Tennyson (born Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, 1809-1892) is one of England's greatest poets and is second only to William Shakespeare as the most quoted of all writers (according...

Victorian English society had many "ills," among them a world changing from rural and bucolic to increasingly commercial, a widening gulf between the affluent and the poor, an embrace of a...

The kraken is a mythical sea monster in the form of a large octopus. Tennyson’s description of the kraken is almost sympathetic. He spends less time on the physical description, and more on the...

Tennyson's poem "The Deserted House" can be critically analyzed in different ways depending on the interpretation of the reader. This being said, know that this is simply my own understanding of...

The easiest list to read is on the second link. Most of the research does not number his works. However, there is one site that did (second link). It has the number at 104. I'm not 100% sure if...

For a homework assignment on this poem, a teacher might ask students to conduct a little preliminary research on what the Kraken is. Minimal research would turn up descriptions of its origins in...

"In Memoriam," a poem Tennyson composed in memory of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly in 1833, appeared in 1849. During the 17 years it took Tennyson to write his poem,...

All great poets are poets of imagination, since imagination is the essence of all that is artistic. To understand the special qualities of Tennyson's imaginative power, we might do best by seeing...

This archaic vocabulary and these contractions are Tennyson's attempts at regularizing the cadence of the lines into iabic feet at first reading, so that the reader does not mistake such...

The poem "Ulysses" by Lord Alfred Tennyson is a dramatic monologue, which was a style so new that many readers may have mistaken it for a soliloquy in the style of Shakespeare. Tennyson and Robert...

Alfred Tennyson portrays the images of a post-death (after death) experience in the following quotes: And my heart is a handful of dust,...And my bones are shaken with pain, / For into a shallow...

The setting of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “Mariana” contributes powerfully to the gloomy, depressing mood of the work. The poem opens by mentioning “blackest moss,” a phrase in which the...

William Faulkner was one writer who had a negative opinion of Tennyson. Here is something interesting, amusing, and original that Faulkner has to say about the famous English poet: One wall of the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's work, In Memorium, was an enormous success. It was written during the Victorian era, seen as a chaotic time of "scientific discovery and growing industrialization." Many...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"-- Easily one of Tennyson's most well-known poems, "The Lady of Shalott" features the ideal Victorian woman, one who is virginal, focused on her womanly...

Through personification and simile the 19th century English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson shows the majestic beauty of the eagle in his short poem, "The Eagle." Tennyson paints a simple picture in two...

One of my all time favorite poems by Tennyson would have to be "Ulysses." There seems to be so much in way of thematic richness that I find it very appealing. The idea of being able to...

Tennyson lost his best friend (and the fiance of his sister) when Arthur Henry Hallam died. In this poem, the narrator grieves the loss of a best friend. He speaks of how nature does not stop and...