Analysis Of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Song From Maud.ppt 4l2j6b

Susana Arenas Lilia Malavé Caracas, february 2015

Poem’s Overall Structure ❖ 11 stanzas. ❖ Most of them formed by 1 quatrain + 1 couplet (sestet) ❖ Stanzas 4, 8, 10, and 11 are simple octains. ❖ Different number of metric syllables.

Alfred Tennyson, c. 1840

Poetic Elements ★ Narrative Poem: It tells the story and evolution of an “affaire”. Sound Patterns: ★ Rhyme scheme: ABAB conventional poem.

Not free verse! Thus, this is a

Stanza 6, verses 4 and 5: “For I heard your rivulet fall (octometer)

Iambic/Anapestic rhythm

from the lake to the meadow and on to the wood”

Anapestic

Poetic Elements Word Sounds: ★Repetition: “Forever and ever, mine” (stanza 5, 5th and 6th verse) ★Alliteration: “But mine, but mine, so I sware to the rose” (stanza 5, 5th verse)

Poetic Figures Simile: “In violets blue as your eyes” (stanza 7, 4th verse) 1.

Metaphor: “He sets the jewel-print of your feet” (stanza 7, 3th verse) “Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls” (stanza 9, 1st verse) 1.

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Synecdoche: Type of metaphor (Lexiconic), one part signifies a whole (e.g. ‘hands’ for labour)

“As music clashed in the Hall”

Music for party.

Metonymy: “In babble and revel and wine” (s. 5, 2th verse) party! 1.

Elements of

Poetic Figures 1. Humanization/Personification: “As the soul of the rose went into my blood” (stanza 5, 2nd verse)

Flower artwork. Source: Houzz.com

The Hidden Messages Connotations: ⦿What is the author suggesting here? I said to the rose, "The brief night goes In babble and revel and wine. O young lord-lover, what sighs are those, For one that will never be thine But mine, but mine," so I sware to the rose, "Forever and ever, mine."

The Hidden Messages According to Dickson College’s Ashton Nichols: “Whatever consolations nature offers in Tennyson are almost always overshadowed by a sense that nature does not care about human beings or that nature swallows up petty human concerns in its vastness and impersonal timelessness.” (Nichols,n.d.) The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;" And the white rose weeps, "She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;" And the lily whispers, "I wait."

The Hidden Messages While analyzing the last quatrain, we can see that: ⦿He links external nature with the depiction of his feelings and state of mind. ⦿Nature devours his inner wishes of her beloved being near. ⦿Maybe the narrator is unsure about whether he should wait for his beloved in the garden. Stanza 9, 4th and 5th verse: “Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls, Come hither, the dances are done, In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls, Queen lily and rose in one; What do these represent? Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls, To the flowers and be their sun”

The Hidden Messages The growth of consciousness, and the relationship between the self and the world beyond, are fundamental concerns of romantic poetry and poetic theory. The aesthetic implications of this self-realization are seen in the characteristically symbolic modes of Romantic poetry: ★Sensuous imagery, which embodies states of feeling rather than being purely descriptive ★Subjective use of mythological fable ★Adoption of dramatic persona Tennyson employs each of these self-expressions. (StudyMode, 2004)

The Hidden Messages 8th Stanza, 5th and 6th verses: “But the rose was awake all night for your sake, Knowing your promise to me.” Possible Deductions: ●The author is trying to embody his current state through the personification of the rose. (maybe he stayed awake all night watching her sleep) ●There can also be a more raw connotation of this verse, which can be translated into “male sexual arousement” (a boner)

Bibliographic References Nichols, A. (s.f.). Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Obtenido de Dickens College's Blogs: http://blogs.dickinson.edu/romnat/2011/06/07/alfred-lordtennyson/. Open School Notes. (s.f.). Elements Of Poetry. Obtenido de Open School Notes: http://learn.lexiconic.net/elementsofpoetry.htm. StudyMode. (6 de June de 2004). To what extent Tennyson is a romantic poet? Obtenido de StudyMode: http://www.studymode.com/essays/Extent-Tennyson-Romantic-Poet65022298.html.