The greatness of Tennyson
Tennyson is a master of music, and allegedly among the most technically skilled of the distinguished English poets.There is I believe a considerable difference between the reputation he had in his own Victorian Times and the lesser reputation he has today.
For myself the great Tennyson poem is 'Ulysses'. Its inspiring message of setting out again to explore in old age is the predecessor of Eliot's" Old Men should be explorers". I will confess that longer poems like 'Enoch Arden' are not really in my mind and heart.
"Honor the charge they made, Honor the Light Brigade."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson-GENIUS, "mediator for God," Poet Laureate, Tennyson was and is the greatest and most beautiful voice to ever bloom from not just 19th century English Literature, but from English Literature as a whole. Simply put, he cleaned up Shakespeare's mess which had been almost cleaned fully by such great voices as Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Dickens.
ALL HUMAN EYES WILL MARVEL AT THE BEAUTY OF THE WORDS OF TENNYSON!!!!!
I Need Another Star
The man that created poetry as an art, and held Europe at a stand still for nearly thirty five years as he held the title of Laurette, now finally his works become very obvious in his complete works, but nothing is more present of the fact then his poem "Odysses", a story about his life, through a myth, fable so to speak.
I grasp that to many times, becomes it feasts, yells, and then knows not me, exceptional is his play on words, and the game I so often play to control them.
Tennyson is a masterful poet, his verse is hypnotic
Of Tennyson's poems, In Memoriam A. H. H. and Maud stand out as personal favourites. In these poems he evokes a gentle blend of melancholy, connectedness with the land and countryside, and a tangible sense of the eternity of life and nature and ones personal destiny within these. His poems are mesmerizing, his rhythmic language and masterful blending of words draws a reader in, and has a hypnotic effect. He isn't trite, clumsy, or contrived. His subjects share the spirit of the Pre-Raphaelite painter's subjects, they are often brooding, forlorn, existing an empty, melancholic, roaming life in a garden of Eden. To the reader, his subjects are real, full and beautiful and are at once human and metaphysical.
The poetry of Lord Tennyson touches my soul deeply.
I am a mariner, in fact a rather old one. The Tennyson poem, Crossing the Bar, as I remember it as a young man and as I read it today as an old man, has taken on new meaning and touched the center of my sensibilities.
