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Alfred Lord Tennyson As A Representative of His Age: Couse:History of English Literature

Alfred Lord Tennyson was a Victorian poet who served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1850 until his death in 1892. As a representative of his age, Tennyson explored themes in his poetry such as the spirit of compromise, evolutionary ideas, crisis of faith, and pessimism that were prevalent during the Victorian era. Two of his most famous poems were Ulysses, about an aging king who wishes to continue seeking knowledge, and In Memoriam, a lengthy elegy Tennyson wrote after the death of his friend that dealt with themes of grief, faith, and doubt.

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Alfred Lord Tennyson As A Representative of His Age: Couse:History of English Literature

Alfred Lord Tennyson was a Victorian poet who served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1850 until his death in 1892. As a representative of his age, Tennyson explored themes in his poetry such as the spirit of compromise, evolutionary ideas, crisis of faith, and pessimism that were prevalent during the Victorian era. Two of his most famous poems were Ulysses, about an aging king who wishes to continue seeking knowledge, and In Memoriam, a lengthy elegy Tennyson wrote after the death of his friend that dealt with themes of grief, faith, and doubt.

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ALFRED LORD

TENNYSON AS A
REPRESENTATIVE
OF HIS AGE
COUSE:HISTORY OF ENGLISH
LITERATURE
*Members of group
*Gul-e-lala (10115)
*Farhan ali (
*Sania raees (10124)
*Aurangzeb khan
*Haseen ullah
*Contents
*ALFRED LORD
TENNYSON
*Born on 6th August,1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire
England and died in 6th Oct,1892.
*Poet of Victorian Era.
*Poet Laureate of the U.K in 1850 and served for 42
years
*Four sisters and seven brothers.
*Educated but very poor.
*Mental illness ran through the family.
*Famous poems
*Ulysses
*The Lotos Eaters
*The Lady of Shallot
*Crossing the Bar
*The Eagle
*Mariana
*Tithonus
*The Princess
*Tears Idle Tears etc………..
*Tennyson as a
representative of his
age And victorian
features in his
poems
*Spirit of Compromise (slow progress)
*Evolutionary ideas
*Materialism and artificiality
*Crisis In Faith
*Pessimism And Frustration
*Seek For Knowledge
*Female Suffrage
*Agnosticism
*Advancement of science
*Religious conflicts
*Love and marriage
*ULYSSES
*One of the famous poem
*He is an old aged king
*He can not rest from travel
*The drink life to the lees
*He has enjoyed all his experiences as a sailor who
travels the sea
*He was also the part of Trojan war.
*Ulysses declares that it is boring to stay in one place.
*He wishes “to follow knowledge like shining star”
*He wishes “to follow knowledge like shining star”
*He declares about the function of a king.
*King need not to sit and only make rules for others.
*He says one equal temper of heroic hearts.
*IN MEMORIAM
*The most enduring poem of Tennyson which he had
worked for seventeen years.
*Autobiographical
*An elegy which he wrote on the loss of a close friend
Hallam.
*Conflict between faith and doubt.
*Written before 8 years Darwin’s “theory of Evolution”
*Series of 130 lyrics
*Grief, confusion, despair, personal resolution and finally
hope.
*The note of optimism, personal future
and future of human race.
*Hallam becomes the symbol of
progress.
*Precursor of new age.
*The princess
*Blank verse, narrative poem
*In a medley a group of seven young men and
women each create part of tale.
*Heroic princess Ida who has removed herself
from the world of man.
*Establishes a university for women.
*Devoted to the women’s emancipation
*She did not want to marry the prince to whom
she betrothed in childhood.
*Suffering of woman
*Women inferior to men
*Ida’s intransigence gone and she marries with
the prince.
*Avoidance of women’s opinion and rights.
*In Tennyson’s point of view higher eductaion
kills the essential femenity of women.
*‘Family is a proper sphere for women to
shine in”
*The lotos eaters

* Lotos eaters basically about sex, drugs, rock and roll.


* Poem desired group of mariners.
* It describes the feelings of wholeness.
 Man and natural world
* Time
* Version of reality
* Death
* Home
*Longing for escape.
*April 1833 review by John Croker Claimed
lotos eaters as a classical opium.
Any questions

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