- Alfred Lord Tennyson was born in 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England. He came from a family of clergymen and showed an early love for poetry. - Some of Tennyson's most famous poems include "In Memoriam A.H.H.", "The Lady of Shalott", "Ulysses", and "Crossing the Bar". His poetry reflected the Victorian era and dealt with issues of science, religion, death, and loss. - Tennyson was a masterful craftsman with vivid imagery and lyrical brevity. He held the position of Poet Laureate for over 40 years, cementing his place as the voice of his age in Victorian poetry.

1. ALFRED LORD
TENNYSON:THE
VOICE OF HIS AGE.

2. HELLO! I AM DRASHTI JOSHI.
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Paper Name: History of English Literature-from-1350-1900
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Dated On: 19-10-2022

3. POINTS TO PONDER:
INTRODUCTION HIS LIFE HIS POEMS
HIS ERA
CONCLUSION
WHY TENNYSON IS
IMPORTANT?
“MEANING” IN
TENNYSON'S IN
MEMORIAM.
POETICAL
CHARACTERISTICS:

4. -In the quit village rectory of somersby, Lincolnshire, between
the Humber and the wash, and not remote from the german
ocean,whose wave incessantly
-“Break break, break
On thy cold gray stones the hill.”
-That Alfred Tennyson was born august 5, 1809.
-It was in the semi-rural surroundings of this region that the boy,
in his walks through lane and copse and grove came to know
every bird and insects, the orchestral music of the hedge row,
and the musical ripple “in little sharps and trebles of the brook
that one finds interspersed throughout his poems almost down
to the last, and that brings them close to the popular heart.
WALLACE, R. W. “TENNYSON.
INTRODUCTION:

5. HIS LIFE:
-Alfred Lord Tennyson, a foreign honorary member of
the academy in class-3 section 4, since 1876, died at
aldworth in surrey on the 6th of october 1892.
-Alfred Tennyson was born at somersby rectory in
lincolnshire on the 6th of august 1809, the son of the
reverend george clayton tennyson.
-He early showed a love of poetry, and when little
more than eighteen years old found a publisher for a
volume of poems written in connection with his
brother.
-Lord Alfred Tennyson is not only a great poetic artist
but also an influential and spokesman of victorian era.

6. HIS POEM:
-‘Ulysses’
-‘In Memoriam’
-‘The Lotos Eaters’
-‘Break, Break, Break’
-‘Crossing The Bar’
-‘The Lady of Shalott’
-‘Tithonus’

7. Blank
verse
poem:
- ‘Ulysses’
- ‘Lotus Eaters’
Three
Historical
play:
-‘Queen Mary’
-‘Harold’
-‘Becket’
Elegy:
-‘In Memoriam
of A.H.H.’

8. HIS ERA:
-His era was mixed with the conflict between science and religion
he reflects them.
-The Victorian Age was an age of high adventure for those
enterprising spirits who are ever in the vanguard of progress.
During the struggle with Revolutionary France there had "been no
time for anything hut the grim details of the actual conflict.
-The rapid growth of industrialism necessitated a change from the
old protective policy of high tariffs and navigation laws.
-In this Age, women began, with a slight measure of success, to
press their claims for equal rights with men. In the past, women's
interests were expected to be subservient to those of men.

9. ‘Meaning’ in Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’
-The Persona of tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’
can be said to move from despair to
happiness because he discovers that the
whole past characterized by disaster and
death has “meaning” after all.
-Tennyson added that “Personality” as far
as our intelligence goes is the widest
definition and includes ‘Mind’, ‘Self-
Consciousness’, ‘will’, ‘Love’, The idea of
God as mind moreover suggests
Tennyson’s Participation in that thought of
the age that saw god manifesting himself
in the movements of collective mind in
history.

10. POETICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
1.Originality, vivid thinking.
2.Excellent craftsmanship: evolve the lines in his
mind, commit them in his mind, commit them in
the paper & revise until they were near perfect.
3.Lyrical brevity & simple.
4.Master of words & essentially picturesque.

11. Why is Tennyson
important?
Tennyson was the grand old man of
Victorian poetry, holding the Laureateship
for 42 years and famous for In Memoriam
A.H.H., The Idylls of The King and Maud,
and Other Poems – the last of which
includes 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'.

12. CONCLUSION:
-In conclusion 'In Memoriam' by Tennyson is a very
dark and serious poem that deals with many of the
strongest issues at the time such as death and the
reconciliation of science and faith and looking closely
at this poem one can see a mix of Tennyson's growing
doubt in spirituality mixing with a powerful wave of
grief ..
-What is the message of Tennyson poetry?
Many of his poems are about the temptation to give
up and fall prey to pessimism, but they also extol the
virtues of optimism and discuss the importance of
struggling on with life. The need to persevere and
continue is the central theme of In Memoriam and
“Ulysses” (1833), both written after Hallam's death.

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