Assignment
Name:- Hareshwari Kapdi
KmSem-2
Batch- 2019-2020
Roll no:-6
Submitted to- Smt.S.B. Gardi Departmentat of English MKBU
Paper:- The Victorian literature
Paper no:-6
Course:- M.A. English
Topic:- Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning
# Introduction:-
Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning belong to the Victorian age and they occupy a prominent place as a pre-eminent poet of their age. Both the poet's apply new techniques and styles in poetry writing. But both these poets adopt their own style in their writing. Browning focuses on the psyche of his frantic characters and tries to look into deep inside of such characters in his writings. Browning tries to understand human nature, religion, and society property. He studies the innermost psychology of characters. On the other hand, Tennyson draws material from external specific realities, ideas, and objects and tries to express it through ornate language.
#Alfred Tennyson:-
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS(6 August 1809-6 October 1892) was a British poet. He was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.
" The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery, of his passions."
- Alfred Tennyson
#Education and publication:-
Tennyson was a student of Louth Grammar School for four year (1816-1820) and then attended Scaitcliffe School, Englefield Green and King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth. He entered Trinity College. Cambridge, in 1827, where he joined a secret society.
In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces." Timbuktu" Reportedly," it was thought to be no slight honour for a young man of twenty to win the chancellor's gold medal" . He published his first solo collection of poems, poems Chiefly Lyrical in 1830. "Claribel" and"Mariana", which later took their place among Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume Although decried by some critics as overly sentimental, his verse soon proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge
# Robert Browning:-
(7 May 1812-12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their Irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax.
Browning tries to understand human nature, religion, and society property. He studies the innermost psychology of characters. On the other hand, Tennyson draws material from external specific realities, ideas, and objects and tries to express it through ornate language.
Robert Browning was a poet of strange inequality and of extraordinary and fantastic methods in his composition. However much one could enjoy some of his works, one could only hope that two-thirds of them would be as promptly as possible forgotten not, however, from any moral objection to what be wrote. He was the Carlyle of poetry.
It is easy to laugh at Sir Edward's boneheaded prejudice, mastery of cliniche and preposterous attempt to reverse Ben Jonson's quip about Shakespeare ("the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing he never blotted out line. My answer hath been, "would he have blotted a thousand" ). Yet sir Edward has hold of something true.
Tennyson and Robert Browning divides the age, and Tennyson is always ' the first named' Browning resented Tennyson's priority, and friends of Tennyson, in turn resented Browning's pretensions.
# Comparison of Tennyson and Robert Browning:-
- Writing Manner:-
- Tennyson:- Draws Material from external specific realities, ideas and objects.
- Express through ornate language.
- Simplicity in writing.
- Browning:- Understand human nature religion and society probably.
- Studies innermost psychology of character.
- Obscurity in writing.
- Careless about from.
- Ear-Eetched resources.
- Nature of Expression:-
- Choice of subject:-
- Message:-
- Tennyson :-
- Reflects the growing order of age.
- Individual must be suppressed
- Self must always be subordinate.
- Mixture of fate and fessemism.
- Browning:-
- Triumph of the individual will over all obstacles.
- Sell is not subordinate.
- Self is supreme.
- Nothing is oriental, doubtful, pessimistic in whole range of his poetry.
5. Nature:-
- Tennyson:-
- Shy
- Retiring
- Indifferent to mention
- Hating noise and publicity
- Loving to be alone with Nature like Wordsworth
- Browning
- Sociable
- Delighting in applause in society
- Travel in the noise and bustle of big world.
- Another significant difference between poems of Alfred Tennyson's and Robert Browning is in their nature of expression.
- Browning's writing are always energetic but in Tennison's tone of expression is generally melancholic where he tends to give touch of nostalgia. Their poetic concerns are hardly related. Browning systematically depicts the essence of a Character whereas Tennyson gives importance in inducing and endorsing a particular mood.
- Browning in his poetry tries to realize human nature, society and religion. Whereas, Tennyson recall the conscious mind an environment through ornate language.
- Tennyson as a source for his poetry, used many subjects from domestic conditions to observation of atmosphere. Whereas, Browning takes an immoral Character and challenges us to find out the moral excellence.
- Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson were two main Victorian poets. They were also famous in Dramatic monologue. It is difficult to find difference between Browning and Tennyson. Their poetic concerns are quite similar. Browning logically reveals the essence of a person whereas, Tennyson induce and plays a particular mood.
#Reference:-
- "Robert Browning Biography" bookrags. Com.
- Browning, Robert,Ed, Marlin, Daniel (2004) Selected Poems Penguin.
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord. Selected poems. London: Penguin Books,1991.
# Concluding:-
Tennyson and Browning are important Victorian poets, they differ in background and style. Browning is considered the more innovative of the two produce to gotten syntax, but actually under his mellifluous and fluid surface style, Tennyson is even more radically innovative. Both Poets wrote dramay monologues. Both experimented with writing in dialcct of complex narrative structures, while Tennyson often explores classical and medieval theme sand many of Browning's best known poems are set in the Renaissance.
Browning's poems reflect a wide range of emotional tones and Tennyson is best known for his evocation of melancholy. We just studied especially in their methods of approaching the truth, the two man are the exact opposites. Tennyson is the first artist and then the teacher, Browning' message is always the important thing and he careless, in which it is described.
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