![]() Tennyson's personal project, in other words, involves finding the proper balance between self and society, the personal and political. ![]() Tennyson here introduces the subject of the aesthete's isolation that makes this poem a companion-piece to " The Lady of Shalott." That poem explores how giving in to normal social needs and desires destroys the poetic soul here in this poem he presents the opposite pole of the Victorian poet's dilemma - isolation, keeping oneself apart from society, destroys the soul morally and psychologically. Links on words and phrases take notes in the this column clicking on your back button (or on the command key and left bracket) return you to your place in the poem.Ĭhristopher Ricks's invaluable introduction (400) to his edition lists a wide range of sources, including Ecclesiastes ii 1-17, Luke xii 19-20, Herbert's "The World" ("Love built a stately house"), and Shelley's "Queen Mab." He also quotes the poet hismelf who related that Richard Chevenix Trench told him when they were students at Cambridge, "Tennyson, we cannot live in art." ![]()
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