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Notes Unit 30: Tennyson, Arnold and Yeats

CONTENTS
Objectives

Introduction
30.1 Loard Tennyson: The Lady of Shallot, Ulysses

30.1.1 The Lady of Shallot: Text
30.1.2 Ulysses: Text

30.2 Mathew Arnold: Dover Beach
30.2.1 Text of Dover Beach
30.2.2 Theme and Subject

30.3 Y.B. Yeats: Introduction of the Author and his Poem: A Prayer for My Daughter
30.3.1 A Prayer for my Daughter: Text

30.4 W.B. Yeats: Second Coming and as an Irish Poet
30.4.1 Second Coming-Summary

30.4.2 Yeats as an Irish Poet
30.5 Summary

30.6 Keywords
30.7 Review Questions

30.8 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Describe the analysis of the Lord Tennyson’s, The lady of shallot and Ulysses
• Critically appreciate the Mathew Arnold’s “Dover beach”
• Discuss the Introduction of the W.B.Yeats and his poem, “A prayer for my daughter”
• Examine the theme of W.B.Yeats’s, “Second Coming”
• Consider W.B.Yeats as an Irish poet.

Introduction

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of the
United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria’s reign and remains one of the most popular poets
in the English language.

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