Lord Tennyson Flashcards
What do British men use against their enemy gunners in ‘The Charge…Brigade”?
Swords
A. Cristie took a title from ‘The Lady of Shalott’:
The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
Tennyson calls the verse ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’:
Newspaper verse
Tennyson succeeded _________________ as poet laureate in 1850
W. Wordsworth
The original title to ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’
A “ballad”
Who whipsers at the end of part one in ‘The Lady of Shalott’?
The weary reaper
The desparate decision of the commander in ‘The Charge…’ Was taken because:
The Russians had taken guns from the Brits
Tennyson refers to _______ in his Prologue to In Memoriam
Goethe
‘Strong ____________, immortal Love,
Whom we, that have not seen thy face,…
Son of God
Who “crossed themselves for fear” when they discovered the Lady dead in her boat?
The Knights at Camelot
The “In Memoriam stanza” consists of:
Iambic tetrameter quatrains
Two works that inspired ‘In Memoriam:
Principles of Geology and Vestiges of Natural Creation
“In Memoriam stanza” rhymes:
ABBA
“Dipped into the future” in the poem:
Locksley Hall
What was the commander’s blunder?
He send his men in the wrong direction
