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“Flower in the Crannied Wall” written by Alfred Tennyson

Theme:

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The poem that I chose is “Flower in the Crannied Wall” written by Alfred Tennyson, one of the most important poets of Victorian Age. He was born on the 6th of August of 1809 in(1809-08-06)Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, and he died on the 6th of October of 1892(1892-10-06). Normally, Tennyson poems demonstrate conservatism, optimism and self assurance that marked Victorian age, but this time his poem is based on depression and on the finding of impossible answers. This is demonstrated with a lot of symbols, like the flower that is taken out from crannied wall, that represent suffering.

The poem is about a person who is trying to find the meaning of some things that we will never know, such as what is god. These things are impossible to be known for him because firstly, to understand what those things are, he has to understand the little objects of the world, which in the case of the poem, is a flower. The person has the flower that he took out from the crannied wall on his hand and he is like asking to the answers to the problems to it, he is appealing it, but on his inside he knows that he would never know what the most strange things of the world are if he don’t know what the tiny thing that he has on his hand is.

This theme is associated with the Naturalism because it’s like a philosophical vocabulary present on the poem.

Main Characters:

I’m going to analyze a poem, there are no characters

Main Conflict:

A person took out a flower from a crannied wall. This symbolizes depression and sadness because a flower that is taken out of the floor (crannied wall) is kike an electro domestic without electricity: it doesn’t work. He is also trying to find the meaning of some problems that are impossible to answer, as what is god and what is a person.

Ending:

It concludes with an interrogation: If the person knows what the flower that he has on his hand is (flower as an all), he will know what a person and what god is, for example. Is this true? We have to know firstly what are the little things to have the capacity to know what are the biggest ones? Personally, I will say yes.

Bibliography

- Reading Handout "The Victorian Age"

- Power Points about Victoria Age