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“Summer is coming, summer is coming,
I know it, I know it, I know it.
Light again, leaf again, life again, love again!”
Yes, my wild little Poet.
Sing the new year in under the blue.
Last year you sang it as gladly.
“New, new, new, new!” Is it then so new
That you should carol so madly?
“Love again, song again, nest again, young again!”
Never a prophet so crazy !
And hardly a daisy as yet, little friend,
See, there is hardly a daisy.
“Here again, here, here, here, happy year!”
O warble unchidden, unbidden!
Summer is coming, is coming, my dear,
And all the winters are hidden.
( Alfred, Lord Tennyson )
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) was born in Lincoln shire, England, and attended Cambridge University. He devoted his whole life to poetry and became one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century. He succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate, and because of this honor, wrote a number of poems about matters of timely and national interest. One of these is his “Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington.” You will learn to know him as a teller of tales in verse, some of them modem ballads, others the old romances about King Arthur; as a writer of many lovely song-poems, or lyrics; and as a poet of religious faith.
Answer the following questions.
1) Which lines in the first stanza represent the song of the bid?
2) Which lines give Tennyson’s answer to the throstle?
3) What is the theme of the bird’s song?
4) How do we know that Tennyson did not share the little bird’s hope?
5) What do the last two lines show that the bird did for the poet?