- Which historical Age did Tennyson belong to? The Victorian Age.
- Tennyson was appointed the Poet Laureate of England after: William Wordsworth.
- In Memoriam Tennyson mourns the death of: Arthur Hallam.
- How many years did Tennyson take in completing In memoriam? Seventeen Years.
- Tennyson’s Queen Mary is a: Drama.
- What is Tennyson’s maud? A Monodrama.
- The Cup is a drama written by Tennyson. Which type of drama is it? A tragedy.
- “And may there be no moaning of the bar, / When I put out to sea.” lines from: Crossing the Bar.
- The theme of Tennyson’s Idylls of the King is: The story of King Arthur and His Round Table.
- Which poem of Tennyson won him the Chancellor’s medal at Cambridge? Timbuctoo.
- “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.
- When Tennyson died, a copy of a Shakespeare’s play was found lying under the cover of his bed. What was that play? Cymbeline.
- Queen Guinevera is a character in one of the poems of Tennyson: Passing of Arthur.
- Queen Guinevera falls in love with Knight: Lancelot.
- Tennyson idealized married life in: The Miller’s Daughter.
- “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.
- “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.
- Tennyson has written a poem on the Tomb of a Mughal Emperor: Akbar
- Tennyson has written a poem on a city of India: Lucknow.
- the only knight of the Round Table who remains alive after the passing of Arthur: Bedivere.
- Tennyson generally portrays women as: gentle and refined.
- “For men may come and men may go, / But I go on for ever.” Lines from: The Brook.
- King Cophetua is a character in: The Beggar Maid.
- Tennyson’s Enoch Arden is: A narrative poem.
- “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.
- “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.
- “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.
- How many Parts are there in Maud: A monodrama? Three.
- “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.
- “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.
Alfred Lord Tennyson – One Liner
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