Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892

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Lord Alfred Tennyson1809-1892

• Main poet from the Victorian Era
• A Paris Hilton of his time
• Began writing poems at an early age
• Victorian elements in
• Tennysons poetry
• Conflict between religion
• and science
• Desire for order

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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? What mad pursuit?
What struggle to escape? What pipes and
timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

• Lady of Shallot
• On either side the river lie
• 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.

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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

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King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

• Why the interest? The first legends of Arthur
• were printed in English in 1634
• now its 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.

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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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