Poetry for Students

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204 Poetry for Students Sources Auden, W. H., “Musée de Beaux Arts” in Collected Poems, Random House, 1991. Bere, Carol, “Owning ...

Proem “Proem” was originally published as the introduc- tory passage to Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s book- length poem In Memoriam A. ...

206 Poetry for Students Author Biography Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born August 6, 1809, in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England. His ...

Volume 19 207 Lines 5–8 Ancient and medieval astronomers believed that the Earth was surrounded by a series of trans- parent orb ...

208 Poetry for Students acknowledges all of the variations of social under- standing, as in the expression that describes some- ...

Volume 19 209 In the poem’s last stanza, the speaker of the poem subjugates himself completely to God, dis- missing his own poet ...

210 Poetry for Students follows a logical rhetorical structure, establishing God’s greatness in the first three stanzas, then ex ...

Volume 19 211 for twenty years, until Albert’s death in 1861 from typhoid fever. After his death, Victoria remained devoted to A ...

212 Poetry for Students Criticism David Kelly Kelly is a creative writing and literature in- structor at two colleges in Illinoi ...

Volume 19 213 Starting from the beginning, this does not seem at first to be a poem about grief, but about God. The first nine s ...

214 Poetry for Students a sorrow so great that all he can think to do about it is apologize. Source:David Kelly, Critical Essay ...

Volume 19 215 soon he was at the center of an admiring group of young men interested in poetry and conversation. It was probably ...

216 Poetry for Students to the daughter of an obscure and alcoholic coun- try clergyman. In the summer of 1830 Tennyson and Hall ...

Volume 19 217 enna Arthur died suddenly of apoplexy resulting from a congenital malformation of the brain. Emily Tennyson fell i ...

218 Poetry for Students moved successively to Essex and to Kent; but he was as often to be found in London, staying in cheap hot ...

Volume 19 219 tion of these lyrics does more than the straight nar- rative to convey the forward movement of the en- tire poem, ...

220 Poetry for Students tion in mood of the finished poem, however, is nei- ther haphazard nor capricious, for it is put togethe ...

Volume 19 221 become defensive about the poem and to read it aloud at every opportunity in order to show how badly misunderstood ...

222 Poetry for Students “Gareth and Lynette”have considerable narrative force, but there is an almost fatal lack of forward move ...