Tennyson

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:poet
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:Victorian_literature
gptkb:The_Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood
The Victorian Era
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Order_of_Merit
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
gptkbp:born August 6, 1809
gptkbp:children gptkb:Meredith_Tennyson
gptkb:Lionel_Tennyson
Gwendolyn Tennyson
gptkbp:died October 6, 1892
gptkbp:famous_for Nature imagery
Mythological references
Exploration of the human condition
Themes of love and loss
His use of meter and rhyme
gptkbp:famous_quote The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
I am a part of all that I have met.
The brook flows on.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.
There is no time like the old time.
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
' Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, Night, has flown.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.
gptkbp:full_name gptkb:Alfred_Lord_Tennyson
gptkbp:genre Lyric poetry
Narrative poetry
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Tennyson
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Ezra_Pound
gptkb:T._S._Eliot
gptkb:W._H._Auden
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:William_Wordsworth
gptkb:John_Keats
gptkb:Robert_Browning
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:British
gptkbp:notable_work gptkb:The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade
gptkb:Idylls_of_the_King
gptkb:In_Memoriam_A._H._H.
gptkb:The_Lady_of_Shalott
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:poet
gptkbp:place_of_birth gptkb:Somersby,_Lincolnshire,_England
gptkbp:place_of_death gptkb:Lurgashall,_West_Sussex,_England
gptkbp:resting_place gptkb:Westminster_Abbey
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Emily_Sellwood
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Arthur
gptkb:T._S._Eliot
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4