describe the visual imagery in the poem "the brook"?
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Through various images, Tennyson makes the Brook (a small, natural stream of fresh water) describe its origin and how it keeps on moving towards its goal, which is to join the 'brimming river'. The Brook takes on the role of the narrator in the poem. Some of the visual images are:
I come from haunts of coot and hern : The Brook originates from a place where the coots (ducks) and the herons spend their time.I make a sudden sally : The brook gushes forth through the ends and corners.And sparkle out among the fern: The brook sparkles under the Sun's rays, while flowing through the ferns.To bicker down a valley: The Brook flows down the valleys, creating noises.By thirty hills I hurry down: Does not literally mean that the stream flows down through thirty different hills, but means that it flows through countless hillsand mountains.By twenty thorps, a little town: In old English, the word thorp meant 'a village'. So here the brook says that it flows past many villages and a town.Till last by Philip's farm I flow: Probably, the last farm that the brook went through was owned by a man named Philip.I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles: 'Chatter'refers to the musical sound that the stream creates, on the stones that are in its pathways.I bubble into eddying bays: It creates bubbles when pushing the air while flowing.And many a fairy foreland set, With willow-weed & mallow: Plants like willow weeds and wallow grow inside the brook, and seems like a fairyland when the butterflies and birds fly around the flowing stream.For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever: This is most important visual imagery and thought contained in the poem. The brook joins the river and keeps flowing all the time, though the people live and die. It is immortal.
I come from haunts of coot and hern : The Brook originates from a place where the coots (ducks) and the herons spend their time.I make a sudden sally : The brook gushes forth through the ends and corners.And sparkle out among the fern: The brook sparkles under the Sun's rays, while flowing through the ferns.To bicker down a valley: The Brook flows down the valleys, creating noises.By thirty hills I hurry down: Does not literally mean that the stream flows down through thirty different hills, but means that it flows through countless hillsand mountains.By twenty thorps, a little town: In old English, the word thorp meant 'a village'. So here the brook says that it flows past many villages and a town.Till last by Philip's farm I flow: Probably, the last farm that the brook went through was owned by a man named Philip.I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles: 'Chatter'refers to the musical sound that the stream creates, on the stones that are in its pathways.I bubble into eddying bays: It creates bubbles when pushing the air while flowing.And many a fairy foreland set, With willow-weed & mallow: Plants like willow weeds and wallow grow inside the brook, and seems like a fairyland when the butterflies and birds fly around the flowing stream.For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever: This is most important visual imagery and thought contained in the poem. The brook joins the river and keeps flowing all the time, though the people live and die. It is immortal.
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