My Presentation topic is Explaining Browning and Tennyson

1. Explaining Browning
and Tennyson
Presented by Alpa Ponda
Paper no : 6
The Victorian Literature
Submitted to :smt. S B Gardi department of English
Sem : 2 Enrolment no: 2069108420170025
Email id : alpaponda.7@gmail.com
Batch year : 2016- 2018

2. Robert Browning
- English Poet
,playwright
- Born on 7 May 1812
- Died on 12 Dec 1889
- Man of Victorian Age
- Married to Elizabeth,
a poet

3. Best known poems
 Pauline : A Fragment of a Confession
 Paracelsus
 Strafford (play)
 Sordello
 The Year’s at the Spring
 The Lost Leader

4. The Lost Leader
Just for a handful of silver
he left us,
Just for a ribbon to stick in
his coat-

5. Robert Wilson Lynd
writes, of Browning’s
views

6. Browning’s Poems on….
 Irony
 Characterization
 Dark humour
 Social commentary
 Historical setting
 Challenging vocabulary

7. Tennyson
- Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Born on 6 Aug 1809
- Died on 6 Oct 1892
- Poet Laureate

8. Famous phrases from his poems
 ‘Tis better to have loved and lost
than never to have loved at all !’
 ‘ Theirs not to reason why
Theirs but to do and die,’
* ‘ My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.

9. Tennyson as Poet Laureate
- In 1850, after the death of William
Wordsworth and Samuel Rogers’ refusal,
Tennyson became the Poet Laureate
- It is also to point out that Elizabeth Barrett
Browning and Leigh Hunt had also been
considered for this position

10. Poems of Tennyson

11. The Eagle

12. Theme of the poem
 Inspirational poem to man
 One has to see down from the height
 There is no competition at the top ,where
we wish to go…..