Alfred Tennyson and William Wordsworth, Writing styles, Themes

1.  Name: Rupa Bambhaniya B.
 Enrolment no: 2069108420200002
 Paper No: 5
 Email Id : rupabambhniya166@gmail.com
 Topic : Alfred Tennyson and William
Wordsworth.
 Submitted: S.B. Gardi department of English.
M.K Bhavnagar University.

2. Alfred Tennyson and William
Wordsworth.

3. Alfred Tennyson
 He was a British poet.
 he was the poet laureate of great
Britain and Ireland during must of
queen victoria's reign and remain
one of the popular British poet.
 Tennyson's early poetry with its
mediaevalism and powerful visual
imagery.And a major influence on
the pre Raphaelite Brotherhood.
 He was raised to the peerage in
1884.
 The famous quote from Tennyson"
tis better to have loved andLost
than never to have lovedat all " .
Is particularly relevant.

4. Works
 Tennyson published his
first collection" poems
chiefly lyrical", in 1830.
 Second The lady of
Shalott.
 Third Ulysses.
 The most popular poem
form this collection were”
Mariana and Claribe .
 Morte d’ Arthur .
 The Lotos Eaters.

5. Alfred himself started writing
poetry at Age eight and had
written most of a black verse play
age fourteen.

6. Style
 Sometimes he used a simple and plain style.
 His poems contain highly sensuous language.
 Nysonson merged his language with contrasting
images which resonant throughout his poems.
 His poem essentially lyrical.Malancholic.
 Verse and black verse .
 Soliloque.
 Monologue.

7. Symbols:
King Arthur and
Camelot
( Idylls of the king.)
The imprisoned
women
( the lady of
shalott)
nature .

8. Tennyson also uses
personification ..Use words like '
hands' and 'standa'To make the
eagles seem more like human
being.'The Eagle' most notable is
his use of simile and
personification.

9. Themes
 Nature ( The Lotos Eaters)
 Death ( Ulysses: for closest friends Arthur Henry
Hallam)
 Spirituality
 The Reconciliation of Religion and science.

10. William Wordsworth
 William Wordsworth was an
English romantic poet who,
with Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
helped to launch the romantic
age in English literature with
their joint publication lyrical
ballads 1798.
 He was one of the founder of
romanticism, central figures,
important intellectual.
 He is remembered as a poet of
spiritual and epistemological
speculation.

11.  " Poetry is the spontaneous overflow powerful
feeling ; It
takes its origin from emotion recollected in
tranquility.
works :
 wandered lonely as a cloud,
 My Heart leasps up ,
 Lucy gray,
 The solitary reaper ,
 The Greek linnet,
 We are seven.

12.  Style should be a simple and
sincere as the language of
everyday life.
 The more the poet draws on
elemental feelings and primal
simplicities the better for his art .
 symbols
 Light , human moral.
 example The table Turned .

13.  Used of metaphor like stars , milky way, sea
ocean waves. In the he Daffodils.
 An emphasis on emotional and imaginative
spontaneity.
 The importance of self expression and individual
feeling.
 An almost religious response to nature.

14. •Themes :
Nature,
Memory,
Mortality,
Morality,
Humanity.

15. Works Cited
William, Wallace Robson. Britannica. 4
February 2020. 26 February 2020
<https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred
-Lord-Tennyson>.