Tennyson's Poems Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam, a poem of substantial length that he wrote in mourning of his best friend Arthur Henry Hallum, has withstood the test of time into the 21st century as a celebrated work that explores how humans work through trauma...

Instability, in its most basic sense, is something not likely to change or fail, this is a feeling or fear explored across various themes in Maud. Across the private and public spheres, instability is recognized in the mind, politics, existence,...

In « Tears, Idle tears », the victorian poet, Lord Alfred Tennyson gives through his poem a retrospective glance back at what he has lost in the past, but also the way people might feel when faced with loss. Lord Tennyson wrote this poem after...

When Jesus’s disciples asked him about the greatest in Heaven, they were likely expecting him to speak of great religious figures or historical leaders. However, Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children,...

Idylls of the King reflects the nature and dangers of Victorian idealism through an Arthurian lens. Victorian poet, Alfred Lord Tennyson, portrays the unsustainability of extreme Christian values in his twelve narrative poems depicting the rise...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “In Memoriam” acts as an elegy for his best friend, Arthur Hallam, while also helping him to process his decades-long grief. While the poem’s length can cause readers to focus on certain memorable selections from it, T.S....

They say that assiduous work fuels the best and happiest lives; but, what if work becomes that life? This immense level of work removes the possibility of any facet of life that does not include labor. Lord Alfred Tennyson in his poem, “The...

Tithonus, written by Lord Tennyson in 1833, is a poem about a Trojan prince who is granted immortality. Tennyson wrote this poem as a dramatic monologue so that any criticism of his Romantic style would be directed to the characters themselves....

Of Tennyson’s In Memoriam, T. S. Eliot wrote that ‘its faith is a poor thing, but its doubt is a very intense experience,’ while Christopher Ricks wrote, similarly, that its ‘poems of most intense feeling…tend to be the darkest.’ Neither of these...