Alfred Lord Tennyson’s TITHONUS

The Victorian Era was a time of originality, elegance, and creative imagination. However, it was also a time of change and of contrast, of very wealthy people and very poor people. It was an era filled with emotion that dominated the lives of many of its poets and its people. The poetry of the period reflected the intensity and depth to which emotion was felt. Poems were filled with images of beauty, romance, love, and sadness. Alfred Lord Tennyson was among the most well known of Victorian poets. He even earned the title of Poet Laureate in 1850. His works were largely filled with melancholy and sadness, as is characteristic of Victorian poetry. The poetry Tennyson wrote mirrored moral and intellectual values of the time he lived in. A poem that was not included in our readings was Tithonus. It is one that should have been included. It is a poem that reflects the feeling of the Victorian era, encompasses the love and regret of the Trojan prince Tithonus, and serves to demonstrate the ...