The brook By: Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Index

•About the author• Introduction•Summary of the poem •Poem : the brook•Terms and meanings

About the author

Lord Tennyson (1809-92) was bornIn Lincolnshire. Poet laureate for

Over 40 years Tennyson isrepresentative of the Victorian age.His skilled craftmanship and noble

Ideals retained a large audiendceFor poetry in an age when novelWas engrossing more and more

readers. His fame rests on his Perfect control of sound the sythesis

Of sound .

Introduction

The poem has such exquisite imagery, and such perfect metaphor that one can easily visualise the stream flowing past. The poet has captured not only the beauty of the stream but the sounds and the connected landscape too.

Summary of the poem

The poet has realistically drawn a parallelism between the journey of the brook with the life of a man.The poet says as in the childhood   the a child is very agile, energetic.

Poem: The brook

I come from haunts of coot and Hern

I make a sudden sallyAnd sparkle out among the fern

To bicker down a valley

By thirty hills I hurry down or slip between ridges

By twenty Thorpe's a little down

And half a hundred bridges Till last by Philip's farm, I flow

To join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go

But I go on for ever.I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles

I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles.With many a curve my banks I fret

By many a field and fallow,And many a fairy fore land set.

With willow weed and mallow.I chatter, chatter, as I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go

But I go on for ever.

I wind about and in and out With here a blossom sailing

And here and there a lusty trout And here and there a grayling,And here and there a foamy flake.

Upon me, as i travelWith many a silvery water break

Above the golden gravel,And draw them all along, and flow

To join the brimming river.

for men may come and men may go

But i go on for ever.I steal by lawns and grassy plotsi slide by hazel coversI move the sweet forget-me-nots.

That grow for happy lovers. I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance, Among my skimming swallowsI make the nutted sun beam dance

Against my sandy shallows.

I murmur under moon and stars

In brambly wilderness I linger by my shingly bars I loiter round my cresses And out again I curve and flow

To join the brimming river for men may come and men may go

But I go on for ever.