Bump- bump, bump-bump, bump-bump, bump-bump! Following the rhythmic meter of the poem, home they brought her warrior dead, you will see that Tennyson uses iambic tetrameter. The poem is 16 lines long, in which they are broken up into 4 quad-trains. Within each quad-train the rhythm goes {A, B, A, B} in order to create contrast between the two end-rhyming lines. For example, Tennyson wrote, “She nor swooned, nor uttered cry—she must weep or she will die” to contrast the significance of the woman expressing her feelings to keeping them in and eventually being overwhelmed by them. Accordingly, Tennyson also employs slant rhyme to maintain the meter of the poem and add emphasis. He rhymes words such as “low” and “foe” to stress the comparison/contrast being made between then and now things.
Poem: Home they brought her warrior dead: She nor swooned, nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching, said, ‘She must weep or she will die.’ Then they praised him, soft and low, Called him worthy to be loved, Truest friend and noblest foe; Yet she neither spoke nor moved. Stole a maiden from her place, Lightly to the warrior stepped, Took the face-cloth from the face; Yet she neither moved nor wept. Rose a nurse of ninety years, Set his child upon her knee— Like summer tempest came her tears— ‘Sweet my child, I live for thee.’
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In the poem beautiful city, Tennyson writes employing concrete diction in an attempt to question the progression of the French revolution. By saying, “how often your revolution has proven but evolution roll’d again back on itself”, Tennyson describes how society has tried changing yet fails to actually change its standards and etc. using the explicit meanings of evolution and revolution. In which he says “ in the tides of civic insanity” , to convey that humans chaotic nature has bought upon them this detrimental flaw. By using the explicit meaning of his diction, Tennyson portrays to the reader this flaw In society which prevents progression.
Poem: Beautiful city, the centre and crater of European confusion, O you with your passionate shriek for the rights of an equal humanity, How often your Re-volution has proven but E-volution Roll’d again back on itself in the tides of a civic insanity! In this poem Tennyson describes how nature goes on and on. Through the use of use of repeitition and parallelism in phrases such as: "A thousand suns will stream on thee, A thousand moons will quiver;", show how certain aspects of life continue on forever with no disturbance. In which by doing so Tennyson goes on , implicates how even though life goes on, we as humans die and don't continue on with life at some point. In addition," through his use of repeating the phrase " for ever and for ever", Tennyson conveys a rather jeaulos tone towards nature because he wants to live on too.
poem:Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea, Thy tribute wave deliver: No more by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever. Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea, A rivulet then a river: Nowhere by thee my steps shall be For ever and for ever. But here will sigh thine alder tree And here thine aspen shiver; And here by thee will hum the bee, For ever and for ever. A thousand suns will stream on thee, A thousand moons will quiver; But not by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever. |
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