Lord Tennyson Flashcards
1
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Title
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Poet Laureate
2
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Death of friend
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Arthur Henry Hallam 1833
3
Q
Fear
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Of mental illness and poverty
4
Q
belief about society
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society should progress through gradual and steady reform not revolution
5
Q
T.S. Eliot
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“the saddest of all English poets”
6
Q
Tennyson religion science
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typically victorian manner, combines a deep interest in contemporary science with an unorthodox even idiosyncratic Christian belief
7
Q
Word painting
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climactic moment, descriptive details w thematic motifs, description and reflection in image
8
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In Memoriam
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Cruelty of nature and contrast between materialist science and christian faith- vestiges of the natural history of creation 1844
9
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In Memoriam structure
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Quatrians
Iambic tetrameter
ABBA rhyme scheme such as Miltons Lycidas
133 cantos
