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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Locksley Hall canonical 8

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instanceOf dramatic monologue ⓘ
poem ⓘ
addressedTo Amy (the speaker's cousin and former beloved) ⓘ
linked to: Amy
author Alfred, Lord Tennyson ⓘ
authorBirthYear 1809 ⓘ
authorDeathYear 1892 ⓘ
authorFullName 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 collected poems ⓘ
influenced T. S. Eliot ⓘ
W. B. Yeats ⓘ
linked to: W.B. Yeats
language English ⓘ
literaryForm poetry ⓘ
literaryPeriod Victorian literature ⓘ
meter trochaic octameter ⓘ
movement 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 ⓘ
linked to: War and Peace
tone bitter ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ
reflective ⓘ
visionary ⓘ

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson → notableWork → Locksley Hall ⓘ
Alfred Tennyson → notableWork → Locksley Hall ⓘ
subject linked to: 1st Baron Tennyson
Poems (1842) → hasPart → Locksley Hall ⓘ