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Alfred Tennyson through his poem 'The brook' celebrates the immortality of nature in contrast with the mortal nature of man. his famous and widely quoted refrain, 'For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever' shows the ability of nature to go on (continue) for ever while human being come and go (take birth and die).
the whole poem is like a travelogue of the brook from its origin from the 'haunts of coot and hern' till it joints the 'brimming river' by Philip's farm. the first three stanza tells you how it originates and reach the plains by falling suddenly to a lower ground and then passes thirty hills , many ridges, twenty villages, a small town and flows under fifty brindges before joining the rive near Philip's farm
In the next three stanzas the brook gives you an idea about the different things it carries while flowing, the petals of flowers. fish like grayling and trout and chunks of foam while it flows in a zig-zag manner (wind about in and out).
The three stanzas that follow show the slightly uneven ground through which it flows. As a result, it 'chatters over stony ways' and 'babble on the pebbles'. It does a lot of meandering motion (Zig-zag motion) and hydrates 'many a field and fallow' and creates a lot of beautiful patches of vegetation (fairy fore-land set with willow-weed and mallow)
The next three stanzas give you the idea that the brook has reached comparatively even grounds, since it is moving more sedately (steal by, slide by, slip, slide, linger by. loiter around etc.) the course of the brook is now hindered by ground plats like forget-me-nots and brambles till it joins the river near Philip's farm.
The word pictures made by Tennyson throughout the poem must be noted especially. (sparkle out among the fern, fairy foreland set with will-weeds and mallow, blossom sailing, silvery water breaks above the golden gravel, skimming swallows, netted sunbeam dancing, murmur under moon and stars in brambly wilderness etc.)
The poem is highly musical because of the use of poetic devices like alliteration (I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance, I linger by my shingly bars etc.), onomatopoeic words (chatter, babble etc.) and, of course, the refrain. (Men may come and man may go.......).
The poem is an allegory of life that is riddled with hard and easy experiences as narrated by the brook.
the whole poem is like a travelogue of the brook from its origin from the 'haunts of coot and hern' till it joints the 'brimming river' by Philip's farm. the first three stanza tells you how it originates and reach the plains by falling suddenly to a lower ground and then passes thirty hills , many ridges, twenty villages, a small town and flows under fifty brindges before joining the rive near Philip's farm
In the next three stanzas the brook gives you an idea about the different things it carries while flowing, the petals of flowers. fish like grayling and trout and chunks of foam while it flows in a zig-zag manner (wind about in and out).
The three stanzas that follow show the slightly uneven ground through which it flows. As a result, it 'chatters over stony ways' and 'babble on the pebbles'. It does a lot of meandering motion (Zig-zag motion) and hydrates 'many a field and fallow' and creates a lot of beautiful patches of vegetation (fairy fore-land set with willow-weed and mallow)
The next three stanzas give you the idea that the brook has reached comparatively even grounds, since it is moving more sedately (steal by, slide by, slip, slide, linger by. loiter around etc.) the course of the brook is now hindered by ground plats like forget-me-nots and brambles till it joins the river near Philip's farm.
The word pictures made by Tennyson throughout the poem must be noted especially. (sparkle out among the fern, fairy foreland set with will-weeds and mallow, blossom sailing, silvery water breaks above the golden gravel, skimming swallows, netted sunbeam dancing, murmur under moon and stars in brambly wilderness etc.)
The poem is highly musical because of the use of poetic devices like alliteration (I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance, I linger by my shingly bars etc.), onomatopoeic words (chatter, babble etc.) and, of course, the refrain. (Men may come and man may go.......).
The poem is an allegory of life that is riddled with hard and easy experiences as narrated by the brook.
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