The brook ppt
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Alfred Tennyson was a famous Victorian poet born in 1809 in England who showed an early talent for writing. He wrote many phrases that are still commonly used in English today. Tennyson had a very successful career as a poet and accepted a peerage, becoming Alfred Lord Tennyson, before his death in 1892 when he was buried in Westminster Abbey.
The brook ppt
- 5. Born on August 6, 1809, in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England, Alfred Tennyson is one of the most well-loved Victorian poets. Tennyson, the fourth of twelve children, showed an early talent for writing. At the age of twelve he wrote a 6,000-line epic poem. Tennyson wrote a number of phrases that have become commonplaces of the English language, including: "Nature, red in tooth and claw", "It's better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all", "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die", "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure", "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers", and "The old order changeth, yielding place to new". He is the ninth most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations after Shakespeare and others. In 1859, Tennyson published the first poems of Idylls of the Kings, which sold more than 10,000 copies in one month. In 1884, he accepted a peerage, becoming Alfred Lord Tennyson. Tennyson died in 1892 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
- 9. The Brook suddenly emerges and flows through the mountains and valleys, creating a lot of noise. It streams through mother nature, sparkling among ferns and petals. It rushes in high speed through hills, ridges, towns and villages. At last, it joins the brimming river at Philip ‘s farm. It flows on forever unlike men who come and go. Colours like silver and golden are used while describing the surrounding amidst which flows the brook. The flows is very enthusiastic and jovial spreading positive vibes about the brook. Thus, on this journey of the brook it meets many things and visits many places, fulfilling
- 12. haunts: places frequently visited by coot: a type of water bird with a white spot on the forehead hern: heron, (another kind of water bird) sally: emerge suddenly bicker: (here) flow down with a lot of noise thorpes: a village trebles: high pitched tune eddying: spiral movement of water babble: sound made when one talks gaily
- 13. fallow: land left uncultivated to regain fertility foreland: piece of land that extends into the sea mallow: plant with hairy stems and leaves and pink, white or purple flowers lusty trout: a big freshwater fish grayling: another type of fish hazel: a small tree or bush with edible nuts forget-me-nots : a type of flower shingly: covered with small rounded pebbles cresses: pungent leaved plant like a cabbage
- 15. 1.A sudden sally 2.hills I hurry 3.twenty thropes 4.Philip’s Farm I flow 5. babble on the pebbles 6.a field and fallow 7.a fairy Foreland 8.with willow-weed and mallow 9.a foamy flake 10.golden gravel 11.I slip,I slide,I gloom, I glance 12.skimming swallows 13. sandyswallows 14.murmur under moon.
- 16. The poet has realistically drawn a parallelism between the journey of the brook with the life of a man. The poet says as in the childhood a child is very agile, energetic and lively , like that only the brook in the beginning stage of its life is very powerful, enhancing and it keeps on flowing with a great rush and enthusiasm throughout its life .it falls from great heights and menders around the wavy path, and when it approaches on plain it becomes very slow and continues to flow eternally .like the brook a man toward the end of his life he becomes slow in his moves and ultimately meets the horns of death and the brook also emerges with its final destination but it never ends to flow.
- 17. Question 1 : The poem is written by 1 : W.B. Yeats 2 : William Wordsworth 3 : William Shakespeare 4 :Alfred,Lord Tennyson ANSWER : 4
- 18. Question 2 : The poem is written in the style of a ___________ 1 : Narrative 2 : Personification 3 : Dialogue 4 : Report ANSWER : 2
- 19. Question 3 : “By many a field and fallow” is an example of ________ 1 : A Smile 2 : A Metaphor 3 : An Alliteration 4 : A Refrain ANSWER : 3
- 20. Question 4 : The rhyming scheme of the poem is _______ 1 : aabb 2 : abab 3 : abcd 4 : abcb ANSWER : 2
- 21. Question 5 : Name the parents of Alfred Lord Tennyson__ 1 : Hallam Tennyson and Emily Tennyson 2 : Emily Tennyson and George clayton Tennyson 3 : George clayton Tennyson and Hallam Tennyson 4 : George clayton Tennyson and Elizabeth futche ANSWER : 4
- 22. Question 6 : The message of the poem is that the life of a brook is __ 1 : Temporary 2: Short – Lived 3 : External 4 : Momentary ANSWER : 3