Just like so many Victorian poets and intellectuals, Alfred Lord Tennyson found it hard to give poetry and the figure of the poet a place in society. ... However, Tennyson's oevre is too large to encompass every single poem poem of his. ... At the end we will perhaps be able to determine with whom Tennyson shares his ideas on poetry. ... Now that we have established a theoretical framework with regard to Victorian poetics, it is time to take a closer look at how one of the greatest Victorians poets, Alfred Tennyson, conceived of his role as a poet and the function of poetry. ... Further...

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In Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott, Tennyson writes about a woman bound to her room by an unspoken spell possibly cast upon her. ... In Pyle's illustration, a connection between the Lady and the outside world she cannot directly see is demonstrated through Pyle's great detail that he creates from the words of Tennyson. ... When looking further into the poem, Tennyson writes "She look'd down to Camelot.... Later in the poem Tennyson writes, "The first house by the water-side,/Singing in her song she died,/The Lady of Shalott"(151-153). ... With thi...

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