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Alfred Tennyson The most representative Victorian poet in England A poet laureate After Wordsworth His Style His poetry voices the doubt and the faith, the grief and the joy of the English people in an age of fast social changes. He has the natural power of linking visual pictures with musical expressions, and these two with the feelings. He has perfect control of the sound of English, and a sensitive ear, and excellent choice and taste of words. His poetry is rich in poetic images and melodious language, Is noted for its lyrical beauty and metrical charm. the product of a long and rich English heritage. manifests all the qualities of England’s great poets. E.g., The dreaminess of Spenser, the majesty of Milton, the natural simplicity of Wordsworth, the fantasy of Blake and Coleridge, the melody of Keats and Shelley, the narrative vigor of Scott and Byron, all these striking qualities are evident on successive pages of Tennyson’s poetry. His Major Work In Memoriam (1850) , his greatest work, a elegy on the death of Hallam the sincere friendship and the faithfulness, more of human fraternity in its meditation of religious and philosophical questions: the meaning of human existence, afterlife, faith and immortality. profound feeling and artistic beauty, the mellifluous rhythm and pictorial description, one of the best elegies in English literature. Idylls of the King (1859), a sequence of tales based on the legend of King Arthur Composed of 12 books, a modern interpretation rather than a reproduction of the old legend, the moral standards and sentiments belong to the Victorian age, An intention to present a cyclic history of western civilization. Ulysses The poetic form: dramatic monologue form: a poem in which one imaginary speaker addresses an imaginary audience and talks about his life, his mind and heart. From this one-sided talk, readers can form their own opinions and judgments about the speaker’s personality and life. blank verse: unrhym