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Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson This 9-week poetry study guide will take you through nine poems written by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Each week (or longer) your student will study one poem. Included in this unit study: A poet biography page The poem for your convenience An area to illustrate the poem Poem analysis sheets with copywork and questions Poetry glossary of terms Suggested daily schedule Day 1: Read the poem out loud twice & illustrate the poem Day 2: Copy the poem and count the syllables and identify the rhyming scheme Day 3: Describe the mood of the poem and answer questions 3-6 Day 4: Narrate the poem in your own words using template provided Day 5: List 2-3 questions to ponder about the poem and define unknown words that you circled on Day 3. 1

Poems included in this unit study: Circumstance.4 Break, Break, Break...8 Beautiful City 12 A Voice By The Cedar Tree.16 A Farewell...20 Cradle Song..24 Dark House 28 Faith 32 Flower In The Crannied Wall 36 All poems and graphics used in this study are part of the public domain. 2

Alfred Lord Tennyson Born: Died: Lived: How many published works? Most famous poem or story? My favorite poem/story written by this poet: Interesting facts about poet s life: 3

Alfred Lord Tennyson Circumstance Two children in two neighbor villages Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas; Two strangers meeting at a festival; Two lovers whispering by an orchard wall: Two lives bound fast in one with golden ease; Two graves grass-green beside a gray church-tower, Wash d with still rains and daisy-blossomed; Two children in one hamlet born and bred: So runs the round of life from hour to hour. Illustrate the poem: 4

Copy the poem on the lines below: Syllables Rhyme Scheme 5

What is the mood of the poem? 1. Count the syllables in each line. 2. Analyze and mark rhyme scheme. 3. Identify any figurative language used within the poem. 4. Identify sound devices such as alliteration, assonance, and consonance. 5. Look for repetition. Is there any reason why the author would repeat it? 6. Circle any words you do not know the meaning of. Narrate the poem using your own words: 6

List out 2-3 questions to ponder about the poem: Define the words you circled on the previous page: Word: Definition: 7

Alfred Lord Tennyson " Break, Break, Break" Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O, well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O, well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. Illustrate the poem: 8

Copy the poem on the lines below: Syllables Rhyme Scheme 9

List out 2-3 questions to ponder about the poem: Define the words you circled on the previous page: Word: Definition: 11

Alfred Lord Tennyson "Beautiful City" Beautiful city, the centre and crater of European confusion, O you with your passionate shriek for the rights of an equal humanity, How often your Re-volution has proven but E-volution Roll d again back on itself in the tides of a civic insanity! Illustrate the poem: 12

Copy the poem on the lines below: Syllables Rhyme Scheme 13

List out 2-3 questions to ponder about the poem: Define the words you circled on the previous page: Word: Definition: 15

Alfred Lord Tennyson "A Voice By The Cedar Tree" A voice by cedar tree In the meadow under the Hall! She is singing an air that is known to me, A passionate ballad gallant and gay, A martial song like a trumpet s call! Singing of men that in battle array Ready in heart and ready in hand, March with banner and bugle and fife To the death, for their native land. Maud with her exquisite face, And wild voice pealing up to the sunny sky, And feet like sunny gems on an English green, Maud in the light of her youth and her grace, Singing of Death, and of Honor that cannot die, Till I well could weep for a time so sordid and mean, And myself so languid and base. Illustrate the poem: 16

Copy the poem on the lines below: Syllables Rhyme Scheme 17

List out 2-3 questions to ponder about the poem: Define the words you circled on the previous page: Word: Definition: 19

Alfred Lord Tennyson "A Farewell" Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea, Thy tribute wave deliver: No more by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever. Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea, A rivulet then a river: Nowhere by thee my steps shall be For ever and for ever. But here will sigh thine alder tree And here thine aspen shiver; And here by thee will hum the bee, For ever and for ever. A thousand suns will stream on thee, A thousand moons will quiver; But not by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever. Illustrate the poem: 20

Copy the poem on the lines below: Syllables Rhyme Scheme 21

List out 2-3 questions to ponder about the poem: Define the words you circled on the previous page: Word: Definition: 23

Alfred Lord Tennyson "Cradle Song" What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of day? Let me fly, says little birdie, Mother, let me fly away. Birdie, rest a little longer, Till thy little wings are stronger. So she rests a little longer, Then she flies away. What does little baby say, In her bed at peep of day? Baby says, like little birdie, Let me rise and fly away. Baby, sleep a little longer, Till thy little limbs are stronger. If she sleeps a little longer, Baby too shall fly away. Illustrate the poem: 24

Copy the poem on the lines below: Syllables Rhyme Scheme 25

List out 2-3 questions to ponder about the poem: Define the words you circled on the previous page: Word: Definition: 27

Alfred Lord Tennyson "Dark House" Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street. Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day. A hand that can be clasped no more, Behold me, for I cannot sleep, And like a guilty thing I creep At earliest morning to the door. Illustrate the poem: 28

Copy the poem on the lines below: Syllables Rhyme Scheme 29

List out 2-3 questions to ponder about the poem: Define the words you circled on the previous page: Word: Definition: 31

Alfred Lord Tennyson "Faith" I. Doubt no longer that the Highest is the wisest and the best, Let not all that saddens Nature blight thy hope or break thy rest, Quail not at the fiery mountain, at the shipwreck, or the rolling Thunder, or the rending earthquake, or the famine, or the pest! II. Neither mourn if human creeds be lower than the heart s desire! Thro the gates that bar the distance comes a gleam of what is higher. Wait till Death has flung them open, when the man will make the Maker Dark no more with human hatreds in the glare of deathless fire! Illustrate the poem: 32

Copy the poem on the lines below: Syllables Rhyme Scheme 33

List out 2-3 questions to ponder about the poem: Define the words you circled on the previous page: Word: Definition: 35

Alfred Lord Tennyson "Flower In The Crannied Wall" Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. Illustrate the poem: 36

Copy the poem on the lines below: Syllables Rhyme Scheme 37

List out 2-3 questions to ponder about the poem: Define the words you circled on the previous page: Word: Definition: 39

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