Class:- M.A. sem-2
Roll no:- 29
Year:- 2016-2017
Paper:- 6
Asssiment :- Poets Tenyson & Browing
A study of poets Tennyson and Browning
A study of poets Tennyson and Browning
Tennyson
and Browning are writing in defined poetic forms: Browning uses the classic
form of the heroic couplet, and Tennyson uses the “In Memoriam” stanza
structure that he has created specifically for this poem and that consists of
four lines of iambic tetrameter rhyming ABBA. Both do not break their rhyme and
meter.
Tennyson
and Browning are Victorian period poets. Victorianism differs from Romanticism
in dramatic ways. For instance, Romanticism presented an idealized view of
nature and of the joys of simple rural living. For Victorian, nature became a
cold hard reality. Tennyson even refers to nature’s bloodied claws.
The
Romantic period, society was feeling the expensiveness class and the poetry of
the Romantics reflected this expansive feeling, with a focus on individualism
and self.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Born:
6 August 1809
Died:
6 October 1892
Occupation:
Poet Laureate
Tennyson
was born in England. He was born in to middle – class family but also had a
noble and royal ancestry. His father, George Clayton Tennyson was rector of
Somersby.
Tennyson
and two of his elder brothers were writing poetry and a collection of poems was
published locally when Alfred was only 17.
Education
Tennyson
was first a student of Loath Grammar School for four year [1816-1820] and then
attended King Edward 5th Grammar School, Loath. He entered Trinity College,
Cambridge, in 1827. Where he joined a secret society called the Cambridge
Apostles.
At
Cambridge, Tennyson met Arthur Henry Hallam and William Henry Brookfield, who
became his closest friends.
In
1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor’s Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of
his first pieces, “Timbuctoo”. He published his first solo collection of poems,
Chiefly Lyrical in 1830.
In
the spring of 1831, Tennyson’s father died so it is necessary to leave
Cambridge before taking his degree.
In
1833 Tennyson published his second book of poetry, which included his well –
known poem, “The Lady of Shallot”.
Tennyson and his family were allowed to stay in the rectory for some
time but later moved to High Beach, Essex, about 1837, leaving in 1840.
In
1850 Tennyson get high position with the publication of In Memoriam dedicated
to his friend, Hallam. In the same year he married Emily Sellwood, whom he had
known since childhood, in the village. They had two sons Hallam Tennyson named
after his friend and Lionel.
After
William Wordsworth’s death he was appointed to the position of poet Laureate;
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Leigh Hunt had also been considered.
Tennyson
was the first to be raised to a British peerage for his writing. A passionate
man with some particularities of nature, he was never particularly comfortable
as a peer.
Towards
the end of his life Tennyson revealed that his “religious beliefs: also defined
convention, learning towards agnosticism and pandeism.
Tennyson
continued writing into his eighties. He died on 6 October 1892 at Aldworth,
aged 83. He was succeeded as 2nd Baron Tennyson by his son Hallam, who produced
an authorized biography of his father in 1897, and was later the second
Governor General of Australia.
Tennyson and the Queen
Tennyson
was praise by Queen Victoria. His work, and in her diary that she was “much
soothen pleased by reading”.
The art of Tennyson’s poetry
In
his writing he used wide range of subject matter, from medieval to classical
myths and from domestic situations to observation of nature as source material
for his poetry. The influence of John Keats and other Romantic poets help him
to reach richness of his imagery and descriptive writing. He also handled
rhythm. Tennyson possessed the strongest poetic power, which his early readers
often attributed to his.
Tennyson’s Poetry
“Marianne”
“The
Lady of Shalot”
“The
Lotos – Eaters”
“Ulysses”
“Tithonus”
“The
Epic”
“Tears,
Idle Tears”
“In
Memoriam”
“The
Charge of the Light Brigade”
“Crossing
the Bar”
Tennyson’s Poetry
“In
Memoriam”
The
poem begins as a tribute to and invocation of the “strong son of God’. Man
never seen God’s faced and has no proof of his existence he can only reach God
through faith. The poet attributes the sun and moon to God, acknowledges him as
the creator of life and death in both man and animals. Man cannot understand
why he was created but he must believe that he was not made simply to die.
The
Son of Gods seems both human and devines. Man has control of his own will, but
this is only so that he might exert himself to do God’s will. All of man’s constructed
systems of religion and philosophy seem solid but are merely temporal, in
comparison to the eternal God.
The
speaker asks that God that God help foolish people to see his light. He
repeatedly asks for God to forgive his grief for “thy creature, which I found
so fair.”The speaker has faith that this departed fair friend lives on in God,
and asks God to make his friend wise.
Ulysses
Ulysses
declares that there is little point in his staying home “by this still healthy”
with his ode wife, doing out rewards and punishment for the unnamed masses who
live in his kingdom.
He
speaking to himself that he “cannot rest from travel” but feels compelled to
live to the fullest and swallow every last drop of life. He has enjoyed all his
experiences as a sailor who travels for everyone who wanders and roams the
earth.
Ulysses
declares that it is boring to stay in one place, and that to remain stationary.
He wishes “to follow knowledge like a sinking star” and forever grow in wisdom
and in learning.
In
the final stanza, Ulysses addresses the mariners with whom he has worked,
traveled and weathered life’s storms over many years. Ulysses and his mariners
are not as strong as they were in youth, they are not as “strong in will” and
are sustained by their resolve to push onward relentlessly; “To strive to seek
to find, and not to yield”.
Robert Browning
Born:
7 May 1812
Died:
12 December 1889
Occupation:
Poet
Robert
Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic, verse,
especially. He was the only son of Sarah Anne and Robert Browning. His father
was a clerk for the Bank of England earning about $ 150 per year. Browning had
one sister Sarianna.
By
twelve, Browning had written a book of poetry which he later destroyed when no
publisher cloud is a tutor. He had inherited substantial musical ability
through his mother. His father sponsored the publication of his son’s poems.
In
March 1833, Pauline, was published anonymously. It is a long poem composed in
homage to Shelley and somewhat in his style. In 1838 he visited Italy, looking
for background for Sordello, a long poem in heroic couplets. This was published
in 1840.
In
1845, Browning met the poet Elizabeth Barrett, six years his elder, who lived
with her father’s house in Wimpole Street, London. They began corresponding and
gradually a romance developed between them, leading to their marriage and
journey to Italy.’ The marriage was
initially secret because her father disapproved of marriage for any of his
children.
In
the remaining years of his life Browning travelled extensively. Browning died
at his son’s home Ca’Rezzonico in Venice on 12 December 1889.
Browning
was awarded many distinctions. He was made LL.D. Of Edinburgh, a life Governor of London
University, and had the offer of the Lord Proctorship of Glasgow. But he turned
down anything that involved public speaking.
Browning Poetry
“Porphria’s
Love”
“Soliloquy
of the Spanish Cloister”
“My
Last Duchess”
“Home
- Thoughts, From Abroad”
“Fra
Lippo Lippi”
“A Yoccata of Galuppi’s”
“Memorabilia”
“Two
in the Campagn”
“Caliban
upon Setibos”
“My
Last Duchess”
This
poem is loosely based on historical events involving Alfonse the Duke of
Ferrara, who lived in the 16th century. The Duke is the speaker of the poem,
and tells us he is entertaining an emissary who has come to negotiate the
Duke’s marriage (he has recently been windowed) to the daughter of another
powerful family. As he shows the visitor through his palace, he stops before a
portrait of the last Duchess, apparently a young and lovely girl. The Duke
begins reminiscing about the portrait. His musings give way to a diatribe on
her disgraceful behavior: he claims she flirted with everyone and did not
appreciate his “gift of a nine - hundred - years - old name”. As his monologue
continues, the reader realizes with ever – more chilling certainty that the Duke
in fact caused the Duchess’s early demise: when her behavior escalated: “[He]
have commands; Then all smiles stopped together”.
Conclusion
The
Victorian era, begin with, these poets writing. These both are considered
monologues, to another persona within the poem. Both do not break their rhyme
and meter. Browning the class from of the heroic couplet and Tennyson uses the
“In Memoriam” stanza, a stanza structure that he has created specifically for
this poem and that consists of four lines of iambic tetrameter rhyming ABAB. So
we can say that they are extremely good Victorian poet because of their
collection of wonderful.
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