English literature has existed since a few years ago a lot of authors English or American origin who make works of literature, literature in ancient times much tell the story of what happened in the city at that time, a great many literary works ancient times which tells the life of the poor and the rich , the struggle of the soldiers and the people in the days of yore, to be packed into a romance between poor family with a wealthy family tell the difference between the culture and manners of society and tell what happened in the world. Literary works kept popping up until today where every literary work certainly reflects what is happening in this world or innuendos about something that can not be stopped or changed.
In the case like my own analyzed before about comparing between tangled by Disney Version on 2010 with Rapunzel by Grimm on1812 could be analyze to shows the different condition at old era and modern era which affect the story/movie/poem/novel etc. if we analyze those story about rapunzel it was show how different condition in old era which the king who had children from rapunzel received discrimination from society, and then shows when rapunzel break the rules and pregnant she got expelled. But in Rapunzel (Tangled) it show more modern like today era. It show that she want a gift when she at 18, at 18 means a children become teenagers and can do anything, find their love, have relationsip etc, their curiousity also improved. If we knows that story we can obviously knows the different ways between old and modern era.
In this case I will describe a few character works of the author at later nineteenth century later, first is Tennyson his character is melancholy, thoughtful, intelligent, moral values, musical, seious and his best works are “The Idylls of the King”, “In Memorial”, “Charge of the Light Brigade”. His excess are Great teacher, melancholia, realities, essensially lyrical and his weakness are Considered patriotism, narrow, sentimentalist after death. Second, Ellizabeth Barrets, her character is Poem too long but on sonnet not too long . third, Christina Georgina Rossetti Wrote mostly sad and religious for young, best produce excellent sonnet on “Unhappy Love” and then fourth is Robert Browning, his character Hard in style languages, character, society, religion,human nature, always write energic, More Intellect than use music, More Dramatic, Travels and his own work&hopeful by nature. His most difficult poem is “Soordello1840” the best work is The Ring &The Book, cheerful, and the other work about removal of rats.
Not only poems in history of English literature, there are a lot of works about English literature such as novel, short story, poetry, ect, also a lot of short story works from German which very popular at old era until modern era like rapunzel. But I will explain about one of author in later nineteenth century based on my power point assignment, I want to explain more about Rapunzel but in this case, Rapunzel comes from German and I have to explain about history of English Literature.
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria‘s reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, such as “Break, Break, Break“, “The Charge of the Light Brigade“, “Tears, Idle Tears” and “Crossing the Bar“. Much of his verse was based on classical mythological themes, such as Ulysses, although In Memoriam A.H.H. was written to commemorate his friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and student at Trinity College, Cambridge, after he died of a stroke aged. Tennyson also wrote some notable blank verse including Idylls of the King, “Ulysses“, and “Tithonus“. During his career, Tennyson attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little success. A number of phrases from Tennyson’s work have become commonplaces of the English language. He is the ninth most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.[1]
The best of his work is “In Memoriam” The poem begins as a tribute to and invocation of the “Strong Son of God.” Since man, never having seen God’s face, has no proof of His existence, he can only reach God through faith. The poet attributes the sun and moon (“these orbs or light and shade”) to God, and acknowledges Him as the creator of life and death in both man and animals. Man cannot understand why he was created, but he must believe that he was not made simply to die.
The Lyrics of the poem of “In Memoriam” :
Prologue
Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou. Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow. 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, But vaster. We are fools and slight; We mock thee when we do not fear: But help thy foolish ones to bear; Help thy vain worlds to bear thy light. Forgive what seem’d my sin in me; What seem’d my worth since I began; For merit lives from man to man, And not from man, O Lord, to thee. Forgive my grief for one removed, Thy creature, whom I found so fair. I trust he lives in thee, and there I find him worthier to be loved. Forgive these wild and wandering cries, Confusions of a wasted youth; Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise.
XXVII
Thou comest, much wept for: such a breeze Compell’d thy canvas, and my prayer Was as the whisper of an air To breathe thee over lonely seas. For I in spirit saw thee move Thro’ circles of the bounding sky, Week after week: the days go by: Come quick, thou bringest all I love. Henceforth, wherever thou may’st roam, My blessing, like a line of light, Is on the waters day and night, And like a beacon guards thee home. So may whatever tempest mars Mid-ocean, spare thee, sacred bark; And balmy drops in summer dark Slide from the bosom of the stars. So kind an office hath been done, Such precious relics brought by thee; The dust of him I shall not see Till all my widow’d race be run.
LVI
‘So careful of the type?’ but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, `A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go. ‘Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.’ And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem’d so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll’d the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation’s final law- Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek’d against his creed- Who loved, who suffer’d countless ills, Who battled for the True, the Just, Be blown about the desert dust, Or seal’d within the iron hills? No more? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match’d with him. O life as futile, then, as frail! O for thy voice to soothe and bless! What hope of answer, or redress? Behind the veil, behind the veil.
The Son of God seems both human and divine. Man has control of his own will, but this is only so that he might exert himself to do God’s will. All of man’s constructed systems of religion and philosophy seem solid but are merely temporal, in comparison to the eternal God; and yet while man can have knowledge of these systems, he cannot have knowledge of God. The speaker expresses the hope that “knowledge [will] grow from more to more,” but this should also be accompanied by a reverence for that which we cannot know.
The speaker asks that God help foolish people to see His light. He repeatedly asks for God to forgive his grief.” The speaker has faith that this departed fair friend lives on in God, and asks God to make his friend wise.[2]
From all author and works in old era until today contains a lot of nature, God, and the meaning of life. A lot of the works tells about the values of life. And all the works is always follow the developments and events that occurred during their time and all the works is always spinning of the stories both ancient culture and other things, then pivoted again in the present.
[1] http://www.online-literature.com/tennyson
[2] http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/tennyson/section8.rhtml
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