11. Victorian Poets 英国文学作品选读课件.pptVIP

Victorian Poets It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all --Alfred, Lord Tennyson In Memoriam At Cambridge, Tennyson met Arthur Henry Hallam, who became his bosom-friend. Hallam’s premature death in 1833 had a profound impact on Tennyson, and inspired many masterpieces, including “In the Valley of Cauteretz” and In Memoriam A.H.H. Much of his poems are based on classical mythological themes, such as Ulysses. Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate in succession to Wordsworth and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language. Which one is your favorite translation of the title? 溅吧，溅吧，溅吧 碎了，碎了，碎了 海浪喧哗 冲激，冲激，冲激 拍，拍，拍 Break, Break, Break Break, Break, Break is a short, sad, lyric poem in which the speaker mourns the loss of his friend. Arthur Henry Hallam died suddenly of a brain hemorrhage while traveling in Vienna in 1833. Hallam was engaged to be married to Tennysons sister, so the whole family felt the loss. Tennyson took years to get over it, composing what some people consider is greatest work, In Memoriam A.H.H., (the initials A.H.H. obviously stand for Hallams name). In Memoriam was published in 1850, but Tennyson had been working on it for seventeen years – ever since Hallam died. Break, Break, Break was published in 1842, but was written in 1834, only a short time after Hallams death. After Queen Victorias husband, Prince Albert, died, she was inconsolable. She famously said, Next to the Bible, In Memoriam is my comfort. She kept Tennysons poetry on her bedside table for years to comfort herself in her grief over her husbands death. Summary The speaker is looking at the ocean and wishing he knew how to express his grief. He sees a fishermans kid hanging out with his sister, and he hears a sailor singing, but they dont cheer him up – they just remind him of the voice that is still, or the voice of his dead friend that he cant talk to anymore. The ocean waves keep breaking on the beach, and time keeps marching on