Alfred Lord Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892 / Lincoln / England)

His poems are fantastic. My favourites are Break break break, Now sleeps the crimson petal (great version of this set to music in the film Vanity fair with Reese Witherspoon) , Come into the garden maud, The lady of Shallott, Crossing the bar

His poems are fantastic. My favourites are Break break break, Now sleeps the crimson petal (great version of this set to music in the film Vanity fair with Reese Witherspoon) , Come into the garden maud, The lady of Shallott, Crossing the bar

I was playing a video game Mass Effect, and through out the series Shepherd, and Williamson use references from Tennyson's poems. I decided to look him up and they are just amazing. I'm glad Mass effect turned me on to this guy's amazing art work.

In Memoriam is pure beauty
And I guess it's evident that I'm a fan of Ulysses, heh, mostly because I can relate well to Ulysses, flaws and all I respect the character in that poem so much, in fact it's hard to express and i get all teary when i try; _;

I like his poem charge of the light brigade. For my report I wrote about this poem and Alfred Lord Tennyson.

alfred lord tennyson is a great poet. I just read The brook. It's so mesmerising the way he uses the words and sounds and everything. Please check out the poem guys. It's totally out of the world! ! !

“crookéd hands” (2 syllables) is wrong.
“The man clasped his stick with crookéd hands.” implies hands out of shape.
But an eagle’s “feet” are flexible to curve and have long curved claws at the end. Tennyson presumably had not seen an eagle’s feet.
I would not say that an eagle on a mountain is “close to the sun”.
I am not sure about “from his mountain walls” – the eagle is watching from a crag – what is the point of “walls”? “his mountain wall” would be a better metaphor denoting the perpendicularity of the crag which allows the eagle to fall “like a thunderbolt”. But the rhyme would be lost.
Can anyone tell me if this method of hunting is used by eagles? Do they not hunt by flying and then stooping on their prey?
The poet is trying to anthropomorphise the eagle but he does not help the poem by doing so.
Calling the eagle “he” and giving it “hands” etc. deprives it of its savage nature reminding one of Wind in the Willows!
But the overall rhetorical power of the poem cannot be denied.

Hey folks, my band Wrong Side of Dawn wrote a song based on the words to 'Crossing the Bar' by Alfred Lord Tennyson. You can watch the Youtube video at http: //youtu.be/FjY-0p_jE1k or download the song at http: //music.wrongsideofdawn.com/track/crossing-the-bar :) Hope you enjoy it!

Very intersting I wish this simple words were taught at school our poets this days are
Adicted to bid words which is distort the meaning at times! ! !

there seem to be some missing words. Would the web manager please check and correct?