Tennyson was born the fourth child to George and Elizabeth Fytche Tennyson. He had eleven brothers and sisters. Long before Tennyson was sent to school he was writing poetry to escape the unhappy atmosphere in Somersby. He used writing to take his mind off of all his troubles all his life. As he was a boy while he would be walking he would make up “phrases or discrete lines” and he would just remember them until he really needed them. When he was seventeen years old Poems by Two Brothers Volume one was published. For Tennyson to be such a young poet this was a really great book. It showed great versification and imagery. Those two things were to mark his later works. It sold many copies and it had only two reviews, but by its publication it was confirmed that Tennyson was determined to devote his life to poetry. He was home schooled and spent almost four years at grammar school, until he left to go to college in 1827. Tennyson was writing blank verse in the style of James Thomas wrote

As he got older he was afraid that he might get epilepsy, or he might become an alcoholic, a madman, or use drugs, likes others in his family. Even more he was afraid to like his best friend Hallam. “I suffered what ever seem to me too shatter all my life so that I desire to die rather than live.” Tennyson said at that time. For ten years he had refused to have any of his work published and he wanted to leave England. Even though he didn’t want anything published Tennyson still continued to write poetry. The death of Hallam really hurt him, but that made him write some of his greatest poems. Many of them were connected to the death of his friend. Tennyson began writing individual poems about Hallam’s death, and how alone he felt in the world. He started to write in four line stanzas of iambic tetrameter after three or four days after hearing the news of Hallm’s death. He continued writing them for seventeen years before he collected them and put them all together to get what might bee the greatest of Victorian poems, “In Memoriam.”

in. By the time he was eleven years old he had written “hundreds and hundreds” of lines that was imitating the pope. Tennyson was a narrative poet, and a dramatic poet. Before Hallam died he married Tennyson’s younger sister Emily. After Hallams death Emily had got very sick, she stayed sick for about a year. Tennyson was very hurt, but he really didn’t show it; but you could see it in his poem “In Memoriam.” From the death of his father, Hallam, and the bad reviews of his poems, Tennyson was in isolation from the country.

T.S Eliot appreciates Tennyson up through “In Memoriam” in 1916 he wrote in his essays that it is the work in which “Tennyson finds full expression.” But Eliot is also interested in “In Memoriam” as a poem of despair. “I get very different impressions from “In Memoriam” from that which Tennyson contemporaries seem to have got. It is of very much more interesting and tragic Tennyson. (Bloom)” “In Memoriam” is a religious poem, not “because of the quality of its faith, but t

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