Lord+Alfred+Tennyson

=    ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ This is our Photo Story about Tennyson's most famous poem, " The Charge of the Light Brigade." = =LORD ALFRED TENNYSON (Created by: Bailey, Claire and Olimpia ) = =Biography: =
 * Lord Alfred Tennyson was born in August, 6 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire England.
 * Tennyson was the 3rd child of 12.
 * Alfred's father was a rector of the parish.
 * His parents names were George Tennyson (father) and Elizabeth Fytche (mother).
 * He started writing poetry at a very young age in the style of Lord Byron.
 * His father wanted him to have a good education.
 * Tennyson’s first school that he attended was Louth Grammer School for four years (1816-1820).
 * Tennyson then entered Cambridge University in 1928, but he never got a degree because his father died suddenly.
 * Alfred always had a fear of illness all his life because of him having a lot of family members suffer in epilepsy which was then thought a shameful disease.
 * At Cambridge University Alfred joined a secret club named the Cambridge Apostles.
 * At this club Tennyson met Arthur Henry Hallam.
 * Hallam’s sudden death in 1833 was a crucial event in this poet’s life.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tennyson became the most popular poet of the Victorian Era, but he avoided public life.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Alfred then married Emily Sellwood in 1850,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">he had two sons Hallam (was named after his lost old friend, Authur) and Lionel
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tennyson’s long list of work showed his consistent inspiration and creativity.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Acclaimed by the whole nation Lord Alfred Tennyson was created a baron in 1883.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">His full title was Baron of Aldworth and Farringford.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">He wrote poetry for 42 years, creating lots of famous works such as, The Charge of the Light Brigade, In Memoriam A.H.H. Section 27, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, " The Princess", and Crossing the Bar.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tennyson is also remembered for a lot of his phrases that he wrote, that are still used in the English language today. Such includes "Nature, red in tooth and claw", "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all", "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die", "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure", "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers", and "The old order changeth, yielding place to new".
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The poet unfortunatley died on October 6th 1892 because of influenza and is now buried and resting in peace Poet's Corne,Westminster Abbey, London, England.

<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; height: 303px; width: 240px;"> =<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Our poem: = =<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Charge of the Light Brigade = <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Half a league, half a league, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Half a league onward, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">All in the valley of Death <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Rode the six hundred. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Forward, the Light Brigade! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Charge for the guns!" he said: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Into the valley of Death <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Rode the six hundred.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Forward, the Light Brigade!" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Was there a man dismay'd? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Not tho' the soldier knew <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Someone had blunder'd: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Theirs not to make reply, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Theirs not to reason why, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Theirs but to do and die: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Into the valley of Death <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Rode the six hundred.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Cannon to right of them, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Cannon to left of them, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Cannon in front of them <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Volley'd and thunder'd; <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Storm'd at with shot and shell, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Boldly they rode and well, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Into the jaws of Death, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Into the mouth of Hell <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Rode the six hundred.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Flash'd all their sabres bare, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Flash'd as they turn'd in air, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sabring the gunners there, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Charging an army, while <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> All the world wonder'd: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Plunged in the battery-smoke <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Right thro' the line they broke; <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Cossack and Russian <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reel'd from the sabre stroke <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Shatter'd and sunder'd. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Then they rode back, but not <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Not the six hundred.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Cannon to right of them, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Cannon to left of them, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Cannon behind them <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Volley'd and thunder'd; <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Storm'd at with shot and shell, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">While horse and hero fell, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">They that had fought so well <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Came thro' the jaws of Death <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Back from the mouth of Hell, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">All that was left of them, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Left of six hundred.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">When can their glory fade? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">O the wild charge they made! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> All the world wondered. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Honor the charge they made, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Honor the Light Brigade, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Noble six hundred.

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 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Picture of Lord Alfred Tennyson. Digital image. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Victorian Web: An Overview. Http:www.victorianweb.org, 30 Nov. 2004. Web. 31 Jan. 2011. **
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 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">.Alfred, "Eccentric" Lord Tennyson." Incompetech. Http:www.imcompetech.com, 21 Jan. 2010. Web. 31 Jan. 2011. **
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