However, Tennyson's oevre is too large to encompass every single poem poem of his. Thus, I will focus on one his early poem "The Lady of Shalott", considered as "art poem",which provides an insight into Tennyson's ideas on the figure of poet by portraying an isolated artist-like figure in conflict with society, in other words which represents best the charactersistics of Tennyson's artist-figures and Tennyson's internal struggle between "social responsibility" and "artistic detatchment"(alaya). ... (Arnold, "Preface to Poems&...

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He tries to portray in his poems a real and clear picture of the problems of contemporary age in an implicit way, and then shows a positivity or a ray of hope at the end of almost all his poems. ... The poem consists of many smaller poems, written in iambic tetrameter with an ABBA rhyme scheme. ... Through the analysis of some sections of this poem, it can be taken into account the relations to the romantic vision of nature and religion in Wordsworth's poem. ... Surely, the theme of the poem, Arthur Henry Hallam's death provided him the excuse to question his faith in God and as ...

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Within his poem "In Memoriam" Tennyson writes in grief and discusses mortality and evolution (Damrosch 1136-8). ... In "A Toccata of Galuppi's" the narrator of the poem hears music, which makes him think of death. ... (Tennyson 14.42) Robert Browning is more obviously influenced by Darwin, even though the Origin of Species did not influence his poems, but the ideas that Darwin proves in his writing were within the culture at the time. ... He wanted his audience to use his poems in their life for rebellion and enlightenment. ... His poem, "To Marguerite-Continued" talks about human being...

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This work of occult is seen as the direct forerunner of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) with which it shares the reputation of being the most famous work of the occult. ... The words spoken by the Prince's father in Alfred Tennysons's poem The Princess illustrate the man's role in the Victorian Era from a man's point of view. ... The Angel in the House is a narrative poem by Coventry Patmore, first published in 1854 and expanded until 1862. Following the publication of Patmore's poem, the term angel in the house came to be used in reference to women who embodied the...

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An ode the woman herself, Queen Victoria, and the subsequent characteristics of the Victorian period In an unpredictable, tumultuous era, the stern, staid figure of Queen Victoria came to represent stability and continuity. The adjective "Victorian" was first used in 1851 to celebrate the nation...

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