1. PRAKRUTI B BHATT

2. TENNYSON
BORN : 6 AUGUST 1809
Died : 6 OCTOBER 1892

3. TENNYSON AS A
REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE VICTORIAN PERIOD
 “ As a poet who expresses not so much a personal as a national
spirit, Tennyson is probably the most representative literary man of
The Victorian era.” - W. J. Long
 Tennyson on his country is that she is “a land of settled government
where freedom is ever broadening down from precedent to
precedent”

5. ROMANTIC ELEMENTS IN TENNYSON’S
POETRY
EXAMPLES
Romantic atmosphere of nature: “The lady of shallot”
“The dream of fair woman”
Love of human life : “Gardener’s daughter”
“Miller’s daughter”
Romantic poetry was characterized by a note of melancholy. In some
of the poems of Tennyson the melancholy can easily be detected.
: “Children’s hospital”
“In memoriam”

6. TENNYSON’S LYRICAL EXCELLENCE
“The product of pure poetic energy unassociated with other energies”
-John Drinkwater
A lyrical is essentially a spontaneous expression of the powerful feelings
surging in poet’s heart
His example of lyricism : “Break-Break-Break”
“Mariana”
“Ideal Tears”
“Merman And Mermaid”

7. Even the music of Tennyson’s loveliest songs is somewhat languorous.
“Music that gentlier on the spirit lies
Than tir’d eyelids upon tir’d eyes”

8. Tennyson as an arTisT
As a metrical artist:-
Tennyson’s mastery of rhythm and metre is commendable
“I sing to him that rest below
And , since the grasses round me wave
I take the grasses of the grave
And make them pipes whereon to blow”

9. Tennyson as a love poeT
The following line from this poem represent Tennyson’s handling of
passionate love:-
“O love, O fire ! Once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul thro’
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew”

10. Tennyson’s characTer drawing in
poeTry
“Tennyson’s character are not living individuals , but incarnate
qualities” -Rickett
Example: “Miller’s Daughter”
“Gardner’s Daughter”

11. ThanK yoU
SOURCE:
STUDIES IN POET: “TENNYSON”
-J.N.MUNDRA