English 3444E Lecture 6: Lecture 6
8 Mar 2017
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Grew up in a remote place away from london. After that tennyson wrote a series of memorial poems for his friend and kept adding to them for 17 years. After 17 years he published a sequence called in memoriam in memory of halom: all poems of today are a reworking of other literature and literary characters, 1842 tennyson publishes a collection (his first) The epic is a defensive prologue, he is perhaps not comfortable publishing yet. In this poem he criticizes his own poetry, calling it bad and outdated: by 1850, in memoriam is not defensive like his previous publishing. These are all poems about coping with change: very present tense poem, lady of shalott"s are is pictures which exist in space and song which exists in time. Changes tense in part 3; changes from a description to a narrative.
