Alfred Tennyson & Robert Browning

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 ♣️ Difference between Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning :-   
     

                Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1893) and Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) both are belong to the Victorian age .  And they occupy a prominent place as a pre-eminent poet of their age. Both the poet apply  new techniques and style in poetry writing. But both these poets adopt their own style in their writing . 

• Browning focus on the phyche on his fantastic character and tries to look into deep inside of such characters in his writing . Browning tries to understand human nature, religion and society properly . He Studies the innermost psychology of character .

• Tennyson draws material from external specific realities, ideas, and subject and iries to express it through or nate language.

• Browning's writing are always energetic .

• Tennyson's stone of expression is generally  melancholic where he tend to give  touch of nostalgia .

• Browning's work bus seldom artistic in form thought art was the suitable subject for man's study. He takes comely and ugly subjects with equal pleasure and aims to show that truth lies hidden in both the evil and the good.

• Basically in Tennyson 's work is always artistic, never studied art, but was devoted to the sciences. He was under the influence of the romantic revival and choose his subjects daintily.

💠 Defference between Romantic And Victorian age :-

♣️The Age of Romanticism :-

👉 Known as the second creative period of English literature and age of poetry.

👉The romantic period was an artistic and literary movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

👉 The age Romanticism was a very turbulent period, during which England experienced the ordeal of change from a primarily agricultural society to a modern industrial nation. French Revolution storming of the Bastille had a great influence on English society and literature. It influenced almost every sphere of life.

👉 Romantic literature : Romantic poets revered and adored nature.Romantic poetry was a reaction against conventions, rules, and traditional laws of poetry. Romantic poetry is the poetry of emotion, passion, and sentiments. According to Wordsworth, one of the important Romantic poets, “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”

👉 Nature is one of the most used themes in romantic poetry; nature was something to be revered and admired. It was a source of inspiration, happiness, and satisfaction. Pastoral life, medievalism, Hellenism, supernaturalism are also important features of romantic poetry.

👉 Romantic literature is emotionally expressive, it often uses phrases such as "Oh!" to give the impression of a sudden onrush of feeling. Examples of these dramatic expressions in the poems include ‘Ah!’ and ‘O!’ among others. In the poem ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ by John Keats, some of the verses with these expressions include

‘Ah, happy, happy boughs! That cannot shed,’ ‘O mysterious priest,’ or ‘mountain-built with peaceful citadel’

among many others. It brought a more brave, individual, and imaginative approach to both literature and life. During this time the individual became more important than society.

♣️ AGE OF VICTORIAN :-

👉 Known as the modern period of progress and unrest and age of prose.

👉 Victorian period is the period during the reign of Queen Victoria( 1837).  This particular age is contrast with the romantic age with the poetic fruitfulness of the romantic age.

👉 The Victorian age was a period of great progress and prosperity for the nation. This was a period in which industry, technology, and science were celebrated with renewed vigor. Because of the rapid extension of colonialism England became a very powerful empire and also the center of world power.

👉 Victorian literature: Victorian poets regarded nature as in a more realistic and less idealistic angel. In this period the Victorian novel that played an important role in Victorian literature. The novelist like  charles Dickens, William Thackeray, George Eliot,Thomus Hardy, Stevenson etc. Victorian poets displayed an interest in the medieval literature of England. The heroic and chivalry knights were a particular favorite of Victorian poets.

👉The use of sensory elements was another important characteristic of Victorian poetry. Many Victorian Poets used imagery and the sensory elements to express the struggles between Religion and Science and ideas about Nature and Romance.

👉  They used Dramatic monologue as a theme of writing. If look at for example then a good example of the poem that adopted these styles was Robert Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess”. Some of the verses which show these are:

“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call, That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf’s hand, Worked busily a day, and there she stands, Will’t please you sit and look at her?”

Furthermore, as passed to Romantic era, most of the Victorian poems show skepticism of religion.