Posted: May 17th, 2016

Borders and Boundaries Poetry of Alfred Tennyson

Questions
Section A: Borders and Boundaries
Poetry of Alfred Tennyson
Tennyson was a writer whose poems are the site of “endless struggle and contention”, whereby the nature of the relationship between the mind and the empirical world is “both divided and changing, a collection of processes rather than a cohesive entity.”
Discuss this proposition by way of reference to a detailed discussion of two poems by Tennyson set for study in this unit and use at least two (2) relevant secondary sources.
Your answer should pay attention to such formal features of the poetry as figurative language and form.