Locksley Hall

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Locksley Hall is a dramatic monologue poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson that reflects on lost love, youthful idealism, and disillusionment with Victorian society.

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instanceOf dramatic monologue
poem
addressedTo Amy
surface form: Amy (the speaker's cousin and former beloved)
author Alfred, Lord Tennyson
authorBirthYear 1809
authorDeathYear 1892
authorFullName Alfred, Lord Tennyson
surface form: Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
authorLiteraryMovement Victorian poetry
authorNationality British
centralTheme conflict between emotion and reason
disillusionment
imperialism
lost love
progress and futurism
social criticism
youthful idealism
collection Poems (1842)
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstPublicationYear 1842
genre dramatic monologue
hasForm lyric-dramatic monologue
hasSequel Locksley Hall Sixty Years After
inCollection Tennyson's 1842 Poems collection
surface form: Tennyson's collected poems
influenced T. S. Eliot
W.B. Yeats
surface form: W. B. Yeats
language English
literaryForm poetry
literaryPeriod Victorian literature
meter trochaic octameter
movement Victorian literature
surface form: Victorian poetry
narrativeMode first-person
notableLine "Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay"
"In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast"
"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change"
protagonist unnamed male speaker
publicationMedium print
rhymeScheme rhyming couplets
setting a hall on the English coast
subjectMatter colonial expansion
romantic disappointment
social class and marriage
technological progress
War and Peace
surface form: war and peace
tone bitter
melancholic
reflective
visionary

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson notableWork Locksley Hall
1st Baron Tennyson notableWork Locksley Hall
subject surface form: Alfred Tennyson