The brook

This is the presentation of the poem brook by Alfred lord Tennyson.

1. THE BROOK BY:- ALFRED LORD TENNYSON

2. CLASS :- 9th LOTUS GROUP MEMBERS

3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to thank my english teacher Kalpana Sahu Mam and my group members for helping me in making this presentation. M y group members helped me in editing of this presentation. M y parents helped me in formatting the matter of the presentation. I collected the information from the internet and from some books.My other gratitude I would like to convey to my school who suggest me to make this and to have marks for adding it into examination.

4. CONTENT

5. ABOUT THE POET Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born on August 5, 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire. He began to write poetry at an early age in the style of Lord Byron. After spending four years in school he was tutored at home. Tennyson then studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he joined the literary club 'The Apostles' and met Arthur Hallam, who became his closest friend. Tennyson published Poems, Chiefly Lyrical , in 1830 . INDEX

6. His book, “ Poems “(1833), received unfavorable reviews, and Tennyson ceased to publish for nearly ten years. Hallam died suddenly on the same year which was a heavy blow to Tennyson. He began to write "In Memoriam", an elegy for his lost friend - the work took seventeen years. "The Lady of Shalott", "The Lotus-eaters" , "Morte d'Arthur" and "Ulysses" appeared in 1842 in the two-volume Poems and established his reputation as a writer. After marrying Emily Sellwood, the couple settled in Farringford in 1853. From there the family moved in 1869 to Aldworth, Surrey. During these later years he produced some of his best poems Tennyson died at Aldwort on October 6, 1892 and was buried in the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey . INDEX

7. The Dying Swan The Kraken Mariana Lady Clara Vere de Vere The Lotos-Eaters The Lady of Shalott The Palace of Art St. Simeon Stylites Locksley Hall Tithonus Vision of Sin The Two Voices Ulysses The Princess Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal Tears, Idle Tears Maud The Charge of the Light Enoch Arden The Brook Flower in the crannied wall The Window Harold Idylls of the King Locksley Hall Sixty Years After Crossing the Bar The Foresters Kapiolani LIST OF WORKS INDEX

8. THE BROOK ABOUT THE POEM INDEX

9. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. INDEX

10. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorpes, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. INDEX

11. 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. INDEX

12. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. INDEX

13. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. INDEX

14. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. INDEX

15. 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, INDEX

16. And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel, INDEX

17. 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. INDEX

18. I steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers; I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow for happy lovers. INDEX

19. I slip, I slide, I gloom , I glance, Among my skimming swallows; I make the netted sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows. INDEX

20. I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses; I linger by my shingly bars; I loiter round my cresses; INDEX

21. 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. INDEX

22. SUMMARY In this poem, the brook refers itself to a living being. This is called personification. The word 'I' explains it. The brook suddenly emerges from a place frequently visited by coots and herons. It falls down a valley making a quarrelling noise. The poet uses numerical references like 'thirty hills', 'twenty thorpes' and ' half hundred bridges'. The brook joins the brimming river at Philip's farm. The line 'For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever' explains the brook is immortal Also this line is a refrain . The brook makes a chattering noise as it passes over stony ways and in little sharps and trebles it bubbles into eddying bays. INDEX

23. The brook's bank passes through many curves and fields along plants. The river keeps chattering in order to meet the brimming river. It carries many things like blossoms, lusty trout, grayling, foamy flakes, forget me not etc. The brooks gently crosses the lawn and grassy plots and slides by hazel covers. It moves by the sweet forget me not that grow for happy lovers . The river does many actions. It slips, slides, glooms, and glances. The swallows skim through the top of the brook and the water makes the sunbeam dance by acting as nets against it's sandy shallows. While passing through thorny bushes, the brooks murmurs i t loiters round the cresses. And finally the brook curves to flow into the brimming river. INDEX

24. POETIC DEVICES These terms are known as figures of speech. Refrain  is the repetition of a word or a phrase. For example, 'For men may come and men may go'. Alliteration  is the repetition of the initial consonant sound. For example, 'I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance'. Onomatopoeia  is a figure of speech that represents the sound associated with an object. For example, 'babble'. Imagery  is a description which evokes readers senses of sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste. Metaphors and similes are also considered as imagery. For example, "I babble on the pebbles". Personification  is a literary device that assigns human qualities to inanimate and abstract things. For example, "I make the netted sunbeam dance". INDEX

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