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Poetry - Tennyson There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, ‘She is near, she is near’: And the white rose weeps, ‘she is late’; The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear’; And the lily whispers, ‘I wait.’

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Page 1: Poetry - Tennyson  There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate;

Poetry - Tennyson

There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gateShe is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate;The red rose cries, ‘She is near, she is

near’: And the white rose weeps, ‘she is late’;The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear’; And the lily whispers, ‘I wait.’

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What is the significance of Tennyson’s poem?

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Vocabulary

Audaciously Dissipated Contemplative Venerable Frivolity Facetious Loquacity Discourse Assiduously Arduous Patriarch Perennial Impropriety Prodigious Formidable Alleviations Propitious incandescent

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Use of the each words in a sentence

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Thoughts about Women

Men on the subject of women Women in History Most women have no character at

all (Pope) “Goethe honoured them.

Mussolini despises them” “the best woman was

intellectually the inferior to the worst man.” Oscar Browning

“The essentails of a woman’s being…are that they are supported by, and they minister to, men.” Mr Greg

“said that a woman acting put him in mind of a dog dancing(nick Green)…Johnson repeated the phrase two hundred years later

“wife beating…was recognised as the right of man, and was practised without shame…marriage was not an affair of personal affection, but of family avarice…” (1470)

“it was still the exception..for women to choose their own husbands” (2 hundred years later)

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Years later of women and preaching “ and in 1928” a woman composing is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.”

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Truth

“One must strain off what was personal and accidental in all these impressions and reach the pure fluid, the essential oil of truth” (29)

“where…is truth?”(30) “..seekers for the essential oil of truth” (32) “The had been written in the red light of emotion

not the white light of truth.” “fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so

lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”

“One knows nothing detailed, nothing perfectly true and substantial about her. History scarcely mentions her.” (51)

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