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Poetry 111 Course No:3214 Third Year section A

Poetry 111 Course No:3214 Third Year section A. بسمة داود المحنبي ريم عبدالعال هدى الجهني. Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892. W ho is Alfred Lord Tennyson?. British poet was born 1809, at Somersby. Grammar school at Loathe. Trinity College, Cambridge.

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Poetry 111 Course No:3214 Third Year section A

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  1. Poetry 111Course No:3214Third Year section A بسمة داود المحنبي ريم عبدالعال هدى الجهني

  2. Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892

  3. Who is Alfred Lord Tennyson? • British poet was born1809, at Somersby. • Grammar school at Loathe. Trinity College, Cambridge. • Chancellor's medal for English verse. • Poet-laureateship. • Honorary fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. • Literary period: Victorian. • Died in 1892, Cause of death: Fatal syncope.

  4. Significant event in Tennyson life. • Queen Victoria's reign 1837 . • Dramatic changes that brought England as a world power. • The opining of first railway and first Reform Parliament. • The extreme inequities between men and women in roles. • 1850 succeeded to the position of Poet Laureate

  5. How was his style? Tennyson s poem represent more lyric form of the dramatic monologue .His poems tell a story or have a narrative elements for example :[the lady of shallot] he tells a story of the lady of shallot who locked up alone in a castle. The poem expresses the conflict inside Tennyson himself. It is a conflict the role of the artistic in the society. He represented Victorian aspect . when he used lyric form to narrate a story also, represented a social vision of this women s position and idea of love .His most care was to build a creative music to make from his poem a technical one .No wide express of emotion as romantic poets also he uses characters from mythologies .

  6. Prefuiosly… • Tennyson uses nature as a psychological category • He conveys via his natural setting the consciousness ofwoman during his time. • He uses the past, and historical events. • Tennyson also explores the mythological past, as articulated in classical works of Homer, Virgil, and Dante. • He uses narrative style in which his poems involves a story.

  7. Tennyson work's. • Tennyson sense’ division between the needs of self and of society. • "Mariana" . • "A Dream of Fair Women" . • "The Mermaid" and "The Merman“. • "Break, break, break" • "The Lady of Shalott” . • "Ulysses" . • The Princess. • In Memoriam. • Maud . • Idylls of the King.

  8. Browning vs Tennyson • Browning was a much more original artist. • Browning naturally inclined to recondite subject-matter and to experimental methods. • Browning's most characteristic ideas are traceable to certain psychological assumptions • Tennyson was the laureate poet. • Tennyson was content to locate his themes in a familiar context, to present this material in conventional forms. • Tennyson's mind was introspective, with the result, that the matrices of interest in his poetry are comparatively few and easy to identify.

  9. Browning’s unlike. • Tennyson’s use anticipating, coining new words & using nouns as verbs. • The difficult in their poem (choice of words and illusions)

  10. Refrences. • www.victorianweb.com • www.wikipedia.com • THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY ENGILSH LITERATURE

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