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Lord Alfred Tennyson
Within the Victorian EraElizabeth Abeles-Allison
3rd Hour
Victorian Era (1830-1880)
• Economic and Military• Unstable Center-England• Industrial Revolution• The World• Change for Progress
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Biography
•1809-1892
•Cambridge
•Inherited Epilepsy
•Hallam-Younger Sister
•Turning Point
•In Memoriam
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Important Works
• “The Lady of Shalott”• “The Passing of Arthur”• “Crossing the Bar”• “The Kraken”
•“Ulysses”•“Tears, Idle Tears”
“Ulysses”
•Plagued •Arrival Home•Tennyson
Opinion
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Summary
•Finale•The Moral•Tennyson
Moral
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Summary
• Reminiscing
Line 19“Yet all experience is an arch where
through/ Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades/ forever and forever when I move.”
Summary
Line 24“Life piled on
life”
• Grey Spirit• Leaves Son• Off to live
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SummaryLine 49“Free hearts…Free foreheads”
Line 53“Not unbecoming men that strove with
gods.”
Line 70• Ulysses- “to strive, to seek, to find, and
not to yield.”
“Tears, Idle Tears”• Balance
Line 8“Sad as the last which reddens over
one that sinks with all we love below the verge;”
• Boundary & Border
Summary
Line 15 “The casement slowly grows a
glimmering square; so sad, so strange, the days that are no more.”
Review
•Contribution
•Important Works
•Themes
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Bibliography• Pfordresher, V. Veidmanis, McDonnell, John, Gladys, Helen.
England in Literature. Classic. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1989.
• The Literature Network, "Lord Alfred Tennyson." Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) 1"2008" 1. 14 Jan 2009 <http://www.online-
literature.com/tennyson/>. • Everett, Glen. "The Victorian Web." Alfred Tennyson: A Brief
History 1"2004" 1. 14 Jan 2009 <http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/tennybio.html>.