Transcript Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892
•Main poet from the Victorian Era
•A Paris Hilton of his time
•Began writing poems at an early age
Victorian elements in
Tennyson’s poetry:
•Conflict between religion
and science
•Desire for order
See the difference:
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness!
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flow'ry tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
Lady of Shallot
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
On either side the river lie
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And thro' the field the road runs by
To many-tower'd Camelot;
And up and down the people go,
Gazing where the lilies blow
Round an island there below,
The island of Shalott.
What are some things you
think of when you hear
King Arthur?
• Chivalry (gentlemanly
behavior)
• Camelot
• Sir Lancelot
• Merlin
• Queen Guinevere
• Excalibur
• Holy Grail
• Horses
• Medieval
• Knights of the Round Table
King Arthur and the Knights of
the Round Table
Why the interest? The first legends of Arthur
were printed in English in 1634…
now it’s the mid-1800s.
Any thoughts?
Hint: People are becoming more educated…
People are concerned with propriety (good manners)
Write 2 reasons why the Victorians would suddenly be interested in King Arthur.
Vocabulary:
• Meter- A pattern of rhythm in a poem
ba BA, ba BA, ba BA, ba BA,
• Rhyme- A word ending the same as another
Example: Shalott, Camelot, Lancelot
• Alliteration- Repetition of consonants
Example: “By garden wall and gallery,/A gleaming shape”
• Assonance- Repetition of vowel sounds
“And round the prow they read her name”
What effect do these elements have?
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