Avenues to Success for 06/23/09

Better not be at all than not be noble.

     - Lord Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, 1809-1892, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom

Image source: Tennyson's Life A Timeline

- The Tennyson Page, Charon.sfsu.edu

Here are some recent posting about Tennyson's poems:

 Death And Tennyson's A Farewell - An interpretation on XOMBA 

... Tennyson’s poem uses the theme of nature to remind us of how small we really are. We see ourselves as indispensable, unique and, for some of us, view our death as the end of the world. What will everyone do when we die? Surely the earth will stop spinning and all foliage will turn black. We forget that there was a world before us, and like it or not, there will be a world after us. We will leave our mark, but the mark alone will be left. Like the narrator, we will, invisibly, watch the world proceed without us. We will watch others make their own mark where ours used to be....

Jessi writes a touching tribute to his dad by relating about reading Tennyson's Ulysses on the living room floor for an English project:

...The first twenty minutes was spent in simple repetition. I started, rather begrudgingly and in much haste while laying sloppily on my back, pages dangling in mid air. Then it was his turn. He lay the spine carefully in his lap and smoothed each side of paper. "Ulysses" by "Alfred Lord Tennyson" he read. And started through it again. He read slowly and with great care over each phrase and word. By the end, I was sitting up next to him. ...

Here is a well illustrated posting of Sleeping Beauty by Lord Tennyson at Seligorscastle the home of Diddily Dee Dots Sleepy Children's Bedtime Stories
"But Dad, I still don't get it."

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