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5) What are some ways in which beauty gives satisfaction to the eyes?
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.
(Alfred, Lord Tennyson )
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) was one of the greatest English poets. At eight years of age he wrote verses and at fourteen a drama in blank verse. While a student at Cambridge University, he won a medal for his poem, “Timbuctoo.”In 1842 he published two notable volumes of poems. After writing The Princess and In Memoriam he was appointed poet laureate, and from that time on he gradually became one of the most loved and most admired men in England.During his long life of eighty-three years Tennyson wrote a large amount of beautiful verse, contributing to the store of English literature some of its finest poems—The Idylls of the King, In Memoriam, and Lockaley Hall.
cranny : a small crevice or opening
Answer the following questions.
1) How do we know that the flower was small and not firmly root?
2) What comparison does the poet make to the insignificance of he flower
3) Who is the poet talking to?
4) How does Tennyson feel towards flowers
5) What great secret does this poem tell us has never been discovered?