Tuesday, February 7, 2017
The Poetry of Tennyson, Browning and Browning
prim Englands abrupt shift towards a crisis in conviction is often seen reflected on works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold and Robert browning in an al close autobiographic manner. The crisis in faith generally resulted from devil of the most primary(prenominal)(prenominal) literatures in history: one and only(a) of these was Charles Darwins ideas and eventually his very(prenominal) powerful work, The Origin of Species. This book had a great impact on peoples beliefs because it in a most general sense- researched the creation of creative activity in seven years and also the origins of man that were associate to apes, which was very different from the apparitional teachings until then. These made even the laymen question Biblical teachings and the inditeity of the Church. This surface way for theological criticisms. six-spot Clergymen and one layperson published a book on Higher Criticism in 1860 called Essays and Reviews. This book aimed to handle the su bjects that get from conventional repetitions free of traditions (Scott,271). These two works can be accepted as main reasons for this rapid shift in faith in Victorian dispositions. The loss of faith, coupled with the turn back of industrial England suffering from illnesses, destructions and injustices generally among the working classes resulted in a dismal atmosphere that the trine authors had pondered upon, stemming from a loss of faith. This penning will ponder n the shift using third of the most significant poems most Victorian crisis of faith that the authors mentioned had penned.\nThe very first poem that comes to mind in this context is the Poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennysons In Memoriam. Tennyson devote this poem to a honey friend who had passed away at a young old age; and through him, he questioned his faith in God, in temperament and in poetry. The poem reflects ruefulness and despair, atypical emotions that we find embodying the Victorian era, and it leads the reader to doubt the initiation of hope and faith, as the author clearly does. Knowle...
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