The document is a summary of the poem "The Brook" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It describes how the brook refers to itself as a living being that emerges from areas frequented by water birds. It flows downhill, passing over stones and bubbling, while carrying blossoms, fish and other objects. The brook crosses fields and slides through bushes, making sounds as it travels. A refrain of "But I go on forever" is used to portray the brook's immortality. Literary devices like personification, imagery, alliteration and onomatopoeia are employed throughout the poem.

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4. ABOUTTHE POET
LISTOF WORKS
POEM
SUMMARY
POETICDEVICES

5. Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born
on August 5, 1809 in Somersby,
Lincolnshire. He began to write
poetry at an early age in the
style of Lord Byron. After
spending four years in school he
was tutored at home. Tennyson
then studied at Trinity College,
Cambridge, where he joined the
literary club 'The Apostles' and
met Arthur Hallam, who became
his closest friend. Tennyson
published Poems, Chiefly Lyrical,
in 1830. INDEX

6. His book, “Poems “(1833), received
unfavorable reviews, and Tennyson ceased to
publish for nearly ten years. Hallam died
suddenly on the same year which was a heavy
blow to Tennyson. He began to write "In
Memoriam", an elegy for his lost friend - the
work took seventeen years. "The Lady of
Shalott", "The Lotus-eaters" ,"Morte d'Arthur"
and "Ulysses" appeared in 1842 in the two-
volume Poems and established his reputation
as a writer. After marrying Emily Sellwood, the
couple settled in Farringford in 1853. From
there the family moved in 1869 to Aldworth,
Surrey. During these later years he produced
some of his best poems Tennyson died at
Aldwort on October 6, 1892 and was buried in
the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. INDEX

7.  The Dying Swan
 The Kraken
 Mariana
 Lady Clara Vere de Vere
 The Lotos-Eaters
 The Lady of Shalott
 The Palace of Art
 St. Simeon Stylites
 Locksley Hall
 Tithonus
 Vision of Sin
 The Two Voices
 Ulysses
 The Princess
 Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
 Tears, Idle Tears
 Maud
 The Charge of the Light
 Enoch Arden
 The Brook
 Flower in the crannied wall
 The Window
 Harold
 Idylls of the King
 Locksley Hall Sixty Years After
 Crossing the Bar
 The Foresters
 Kapiolani
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9. I come from haunts
of coot and hern,
I make a sudden
sally
And sparkle out
among the fern,
To bicker down a
valley. INDEX

10. By thirty hills I
hurry down,
Or slip between the
ridges,
By twenty thorpes, a
little town,
And half a hundred
bridges. INDEX

11. Till last by Philip's
farm I flow
To join the brimming
river,
For men may come
and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
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12. I chatter over stony
ways,
In little sharps and
trebles,
I bubble into eddying
bays,
I babble on the pebbles.
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13. With many a curve
my banks I fret
By many a field and
fallow,
And many a fairy
foreland set
With willow-weed and
mallow.
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14. I chatter, chatter, as
I flow
To join the brimming
river,
For men may come
and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
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15. I wind about, and in
and out,
With here a blossom
sailing,
And here and there a
lusty trout,
And here and there a
grayling,
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16. And here and there a
foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a silvery
waterbreak
Above the golden
gravel,
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17. And draw them all
along, and flow
To join the brimming
river
For men may come
and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
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18. I steal by lawns and
grassy plots,
I slide by hazel
covers;
I move the sweet
forget-me-nots
That grow for happy
lovers.
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19. I slip, I slide, I
gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming
swallows;
I make the netted
sunbeam dance
Against my sandy
shallows.
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20. I murmur under moon
and stars
In brambly
wildernesses;
I linger by my
shingly bars;
I loiter round my
cresses;
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21. And out again I
curve and flow
To join the brimming
river,
For men may come
and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
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22. In this poem, the brook refers itself to a living
being. This is called personification. The word 'I'
explains it. The brook suddenly emerges from a
place frequently visited by coots and herons. It falls
down a valley making a quarrelling noise. The poet
uses numerical references like 'thirty hills', 'twenty
thorpes' and ' half hundred bridges'. The brook
joins the brimming river at Philip's farm. The line
'For men may come and men may go, but I go on
forever' explains the brook is immortal Also this line
is a refrain. The brook makes a chattering noise as
it passes over stony ways and in little sharps and
trebles it bubbles into eddying bays.
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23. The brook's bank passes through many curves and
fields along plants. The river keeps chattering in
order to meet the brimming river. It carries many
things like blossoms, lusty trout, grayling, foamy
flakes, forget me not etc. The brooks gently
crosses the lawn and grassy plots and slides by
hazel covers. It moves by the sweet forget me not
that grow for happy lovers.The river does many
actions. It slips, slides, glooms,and glances. The
swallows skim through the top of the brook and the
water makes the sunbeam dance by acting as nets
against it's sandy shallows. While passing through
thorny bushes, the brooks murmurs it loiters round
the cresses. And finally the brook curves to flow
into the brimming river.
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24. These terms are known as figures of speech.
•Refrain is the repetition of a word or a phrase. For example, 'For
men may come and men may go'.
•Alliteration is the repetition of the initial consonant sound. For
example, 'I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance'.
•Onomatopoeia is a figure of speech that represents the sound
associated with an object. For example, 'babble'.
•Imagery is a description which evokes readers senses of sight,
smell, hearing, touch and taste. Metaphors and similes are also
considered as imagery. For example, "I babble on the pebbles".
•Personification is a literary device that assigns human qualities to
inanimate and abstract things. For example, "I make the netted
sunbeam dance".
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