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Alfred Lord Tennyson – One Liner

About the Author: Abirlal Mukherjee

Assistant Professor (Amity University), Digital Humanist
Ph.D in English (GITAM, India), M.A. and B.A. in English (B.C.C., B.K.U, India), P.G.D.E. -I by Research (B.C.U, UK), TESOL Prof. Certification (Arizona State University, USA)

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  1. Which historical Age did Tennyson belong to? The Victorian Age.
  2. Tennyson was appointed the Poet Laureate of England after: William Wordsworth.
  3. In Memoriam Tennyson mourns the death of: Arthur Hallam.
  4. How many years did Tennyson take in completing In memoriam? Seventeen Years.
  5. Tennyson’s Queen Mary is a: Drama.
  6. What is Tennyson’s maud? A Monodrama.
  7. The Cup is a drama written by Tennyson. Which type of drama is it? A tragedy.
  8. “And may there be no moaning of the bar, / When I put out to sea.” lines from: Crossing the Bar.
  9. The theme of Tennyson’s Idylls of the King is: The story of King Arthur and His Round Table.
  10. Which poem of Tennyson won him the Chancellor’s medal at Cambridge? Timbuctoo.
  11. “Let knowledge grow from more to more, / But more of reverence in us dwell; / That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before.” These lines are quoted from In Memoriam, what do these lines imply? Compromise between knowledge and faith.
  12. When Tennyson died, a copy of a Shakespeare’s play was found lying under the cover of his bed. What was that play? Cymbeline.
  13. Queen Guinevera is a character in one of the poems of Tennyson: Passing of Arthur.
  14. Queen Guinevera falls in love with Knight: Lancelot.
  15. Tennyson idealized married life in: The Miller’s Daughter.
  16. “That God, which ever lives and loves, / One God, one law, one element, / And one far-off divine event / To which the whole creation moves.” A poem of Tennyson’s closes with this stanza is: In Memoriam.
  17. “Dear is the memory of our wedded lives, / And dear the last embraces of our wives / And their warm tears: but all hath suffered change.” lines from: The Lotus Eater.
  18. Tennyson has written a poem on the Tomb of a Mughal Emperor: Akbar
  19. Tennyson has written a poem on a city of India: Lucknow.
  20. the only knight of the Round Table who remains alive after the passing of Arthur: Bedivere.
  21. Tennyson generally portrays women as: gentle and refined.
  22. “For men may come and men may go, / But I go on for ever.” Lines from: The Brook.
  23. King Cophetua is a character in: The Beggar Maid.
  24. Tennyson’s Enoch Arden is: A narrative poem.
  25. “There she weaves by ight and day / A magic web with colours gay, / She has heard a whisper say, / A curse is on her if she stay.” Lines from: The lady of Shalott.
  26. “Cannons to right of them, Cannons to left of them, Cannons in front of them, Volley’d and thunder’d” lines from: Charge of the Light Brigade.
  27. “We have but faith: we can not know; / For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness; let it grow.” Lines from: In Memoriam.
  28. How many Parts are there in Maud: A monodrama? Three.
  29. “The old order changeth, yielding a place to new. / And God fulfills Himself in many ways, / Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.” Lines from: The passing of Arthur.
  30. “Man for the field and woman for the hearth,/ Man for the sword, and for the needle she. / Man with the head and woman with the heart; / Man to command and woman to obey.” lines from: The princess.
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