The document provides context and analysis of the poem "The Brook" by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It summarizes that the poem uses the brook as a metaphor for human life. As the brook travels through villages and over hills, it represents a person carrying family and friends through life. The brook flows until it reaches a river, representing how humans are mortal while nature is immortal. It then provides biographical details of Tennyson and examples of poetic devices in the poem.

2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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“THE BROOK” “(BY ALFRED LORDTENNYSON)”

3. INTRODUCTION
The poem, 'The Brook' is a metaphor of the human life in
the form of river. The brook travels through 20 villages, 50
bridges and 30 hills till it reaches the river at Phillip's farm
.The brook carries objects such as fish, foamy bubbles, and
flowers which represent a person carrying their family,
friends, and other important objects .This basically states
that man is mortal while nature is immortal. A human can
only live for so long before that person dies but the brook
and nature is never-ending and will out live humans. The
brook will flow long after a person is dead. This is basically
what the poem represents.

5. Alfred Tennyson was born on 6 August 1809 and died on 6 October 1892 . He was Poet of the United Kingdom
during the rule of Queen Victoria and he had remain one of the most popular poets in the English language.
Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, "In the valley of Cauteretz", "Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of
the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears" and "Crossing the Bar". Much of his verse was based on classical
mythological themes, such as Ulysses, although In Memoriam A.H.H. was written to commemorate his best
friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and fellow student at Trinity College, Cambridge, who was engaged to
Tennyson's sister, but died from a cerebral hemorrhage before they were married. Tennyson also wrote some
notable blank verse including Idylls of the King, Ulysses, and Tithonus. During his career, Tennyson attempted
drama, but his plays enjoyed little success.

10. POETIC DEVICE
1. Sudden sally’
2. ‘Field and fallow’

11. SOLVED QUESTIONS
Q1 :-Where is the birth place of brook ?
Ans:- The brook come from the place which are frequently visited by water birds like
coots and herns .
Q2 :- why does the brook bicker down a valley ?
Ans :- The hilly terrain is the birth place of the brook . When the water flows over
such terrain , it creates a lot of noise . So this noise is repeated by “bicker”
Q3 :- Describe the movement of brook as flow through hills ?
Ans :-As the brook flow through the hills it hurries down the slip between the
ridge noisily .
Q4 :- What is its destination ?
Ans :- Its destination is the brimming river which it join at last .

12. Q5 :- Where does the brook joins the river ?
Ans:- The brook joins the river near Philip's farms .
Q6 :- Why do you think the brook babble on the Preble ?
Ans :-The brook babble on the Preble because they cause a certain disturbance into
its path .
Q7 :- What make the brook angry ?
Ans :- Many curves and twists make the brook angry .
Q8 :- What comes in its way ?
Ans :- There are many fields and fellow lands and many beautiful forelands that
come in its way .

13. UNSOLVERD QUESTIONS
Q1:- How had poet personified the brook in the poem ?
Q2:- in what ways does the poet creat a close affinity between the
life and brook ?
Q3 :- How does the poet personified brook in its yoth ?
Q4 :- The poet denotes the different movement of the brook . Enlist a
three ?
Q5 :- what is “alliteration” give two example of alliteration from th
poem ?

14. MULTIPLE CHOICE
QUESTION
1. W.B. Yeats
2. William Wordsworth
3. William Shakespeare
4. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Question 1 : The poem is written by
Answer: 4
1. narrative
2. personification
3. dialogue
4. report
Question 2 : The poem is written in the style of a
Answer: 2

15. 1. a simile
2. a metaphor
3. an alliteration
4. a refrain
Question 3 : "By many a field and fallow" is an example of
Answer: 3
1. aabb
2. abab
3. abcd
4. abcb
Question 4 : The rhyming scheme of the poem is
Answer: 2

16. 1. temporary
2. short - lived
3. eternal
4. momentary
Question 5 : The message of the poem is that the life of a
brook is
Answer: 3