Unlike Arnold, he expressed a compromising attitude to his age and its intricate problems. Tennyson, we find, in his Ulysses, The Lotos Eaters, The Charge of the Light Brigade, holds such a sort of view which is supposed to find a middle ground. He is neither too melancholic like Arnold nor too optimistic like Robert Browning, another contemporary, in terms of the tone, mood and theme of his poetry. 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. In fact the poem 'the Charge of the Light Brigade' which is based upon the Crimean War, describes the marvelous courage of the British soldiers and pays homage to them.
In fact, the frequent use of myths in many of his poems proves that, Tennyson believed not to stagnate in a melancholic state. Rather through going back to classical myths, he is trying at least to find a sort of solution to some extents.
Because of the quality to look for a middle ground, Tennyson is considered as a compromising craftsman who does neither yield to the crisis of his age nor possess a carefree attitude towards the problems, rather keeps compromising and finding a solution.
In what way in Tennyson's imagery of nature in "In Memoriam" distinctive from the Romantic .
Presentation of Nature as God-Nature? .
In Memoriam A.H.H. is a long poem written by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and completed in 1849. It was composed as an elegy to his friend, Hallam, who died at the age of 22 from a fever. The poem consists of many smaller poems, written in iambic tetrameter with an ABBA rhyme scheme. Besides it is divided into 133 cantos (including the prologue and epilogue), and in contrast to its constant and regulated metrical form, it deals with different subjects such as: profound spiritual experiences, nostalgic reminscence, philosophical speculation, Romantic fantasizing and even occasional verse.
Families were larger during the Victorian Era. ... The Victorian Era provided a great inspiration for poetry as well. ... Poets like Keats, Shelly, and Wordsworth inspired the poets of the Victorian age from the Romantic Era. ... Education was also a major aspect of the Victorian Era. ... Science also saw some expansion during the Victorian Era. ...
The Internal Combustion Engine in the Victorian Era The internal combustion was the invention that revolutionized the Victorian era forever. ... This invention isn't really expressed through poetry specifically, but I figure that if a poet talks about traveling it must be in a car because that is the fastest efficient way to travel. ... Even though I couldn't really find too much evidence about cars in a poem I know it is and will always be one of the inventions that not only revolutionized the Victorian era, but the whole world. ...
If not for de Staël's Corinne, the Sapphic myth would never have found such prominent status in Victorian Poetry. ... Felicia Hemans was the first Victorian poet to develop the Corinne/Sappho myth within the framework of Victorian social mores. ... Lyric poetry's emotive freedom and the fragmentary nature of Sappho's original works allow the poet to use the Sapphic heroine as an agent for personal exposition, a trend that Hemans paved for other Victorian female authors follow. ... - Such recognition lies at the heart of every Victorian woman poet's fond...
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. ... As we will see, Tennyson was not the only Victorian anxious about the poet's role in society and the function of poetry. Many Victorians, such as Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold, John Stuart Mill and Arthur Hallam, wrote essays on what the Victorian poet should do and what poetry should be. ... The Victorian era was characterized by a climate of uncertainty about the function of poetry and the role of the poet. As Joseph Bristow argues in...
Affluent poetry and novels combined the mystery and awe of real life with charming blissful words. The Victorian era, however, took a toll on their light hearted literature, it exploited the aspects of that century, its changes, the positive and negative outcomes of these changes, and how it affected the society and the lives of the Victorians. ... The Victorian era was the great age of the English novel-realistic, which was long, thickly plotted and crowded with characters. ... The Victorian writers exhibited some well-established habits from previous eras, while at the same time pushing arts...
William Wordsworth, one of the most famous poets from the Romantic Era, performed as a radical activist, prestigious poet, and loving father. Wordsworth's ideas of the common man and his relativity to nature aspired a new movement of poetry in the late 1700's, early 1800s, beginning the Romantic Period. 3. ... While attempting to completely understand Wordsworth's passion for the "common man" and his language, readers are forced to examine the poet's life and the period in which he wrote, while inventing the new form of "peasant poetry." 5. First, to completely un...
In the mid-Victorian period women have been represented in many different ways, using various forms of literature, for example through poetry, novels, and newspaper articles and also in visual form through paintings and etchings, they show how women were represented, how fathers, husbands and society treated them in general. The mid-Victorian period is classified as being around 1851-1870, a period of "intense and prolific activity in literature, especially by novelists and poets, philosophers and essayists," (The Critical Poet). ... Another example of the way women were represented in the...
" The Voice" Thomas Hardy has often been referred to, along with other poets of the time, as being on the "cusp" between Victorian and Modern Poetry. Hardy's life spanned 88 years, most of the Victorian era (1837 - 1908) from his birth in 1840 to his demise in 1928. ... Complimenting these themes is desperation, which is shown as the poet describes a voice that he cannot possibly be hearing but through his need for her at this time of great fear, he does. Typical to the Victorian era which focused on death, the mood is daunting and often unsettling, broken only by a brief flicke...
