![]() ![]() Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain’d a ghastly dew From the nations’ airy navies grappling in the central blue Tennyson also predicts the rise of both civil aviation and military aviation in the following words: He relapses into anger briefly again when he hears a bugle call from his comrades telling him to hurry up. To be free of his depression, the protagonist continues into a grand description of the world to come, which he views as somewhat utopian. I have but an angry fancy what is that which I should do? I had been content to perish, falling on the foeman's ground, When the ranks are roll'd in vapour, and the winds are laid with sound. Every gate is throng'd with suitors, all the markets overflow. What is that which I should turn to, lighting upon days like these? Every door is barr'd with gold, and opens but to golden keys. The protagonist seeks escape from his depression by thinking he might immerse himself in some sort of work that would distract him, but finds this impossible, saying: The protagonist promptly continues his angry tirade, this time directed at the mother–child relationship. This criticism is only really interrupted when he reflects that she will eventually have a child, and will be more concerned with her child than about the protagonist. He proceeds to offer a biting criticism of her husband who supplanted him in her affections, interspersed with personal reflection. In his monologue, the protagonist begins with fond memories of his childhood sweetheart, but those memories quickly lead to a burst of anger as he relates that the object of his affections abandoned him due to her parents' disapproval. The protagonist struggles to reach some sort of catharsis on his childhood feelings. The rest of the poem, though written as rhymed metered verse, follows the stream of consciousness of its protagonist as an interior monologue. ![]() He reveals that the place he has stopped at is called Locksley Hall, and he spent his childhood there. The poem opens with the unnamed protagonist asking his friends to continue ahead and leave him alone to muse about the past and the future. The meter is reminiscent of that of the Nibelungenlied. The University of Toronto library identifies this form as "the old 'fifteener' line," quoting Tennyson, who claimed it was written in trochaics because the father of his friend Arthur Hallam suggested that the English liked the meter. Each couplet is separated as its own stanza. Each line follows a modified version of trochaic octameter in which the last unstressed syllable has been eliminated moreover, there is generally a caesura, whether explicit or implicit, after the first four trochees in the line. "Locksley Hall" is a dramatic monologue written as a set of 97 rhyming couplets. Tennyson's son Hallam recalled that his father said the poem was inspired by Sir William Jones's prose translation of the Arabic Mu'allaqat. It narrates the emotions of a rejected suitor upon coming to his childhood home, an apparently fictional Locksley Hall, though in fact Tennyson was a guest of the Arundel family in their stately home named Loxley Hall, in Staffordshire, where he spent much of his time writing whilst on his visits.Īccording to Tennyson, the poem represents "young life, its good side, its deficiencies, and its yearnings". " Locksley Hall" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson in 1835 and published in his 1842 collection of Poems.
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