![]() ![]() ![]() The distressed narrator loses his sanity for a while and imagines that he himself is dead. Maud's death impacts on the psychological state of the protagonist, and an emotional longing for contact with the deceased echoes the tones of In Memoriam. The narrator is forced to flee to France where he learns later that Maud has also died. Shortly afterwards Maud's brother also appears and strikes the narrator, who kills him in an unnarrated duel. During the ball the poet waits for Maud in the garden, leading to the famous line "Come into the garden, Maud". The brother goes to London for a week, giving the narrator a chance to court Maud, but on his return he arranges a ball, invites the collier and leaves the narrator out. Maud's brother favours a collier who is seen as an upstart as his family have been rich for only three generations, and forbids Maud to contact the narrator. The appearance of Maud's brother causes conflict. Later the narrator falls passionately in love with Maud and this transforms the narrative into a pastoral, dwelling on her beauty. At first the narrator is somewhat antagonistic towards Maud and is unsure whether she is teasing him he feels Maud is unfit to be a wife. The first part of the poem dwells on the funeral of the protagonist's father, and a feeling of loss and lament prevails then Maud is the prevailing theme. Frances Baring married, secondly, Arthur Eden (1793–1874), Assistant-Comptroller of the Exchequer, and they lived at Harrington Hall, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, which is the garden of the poem (also referred to as "the Eden where she dwelt" in Tennyson's poem "The Gardener's Daughter"). The poem was inspired by Charlotte Rosa Baring, younger daughter of William Baring (1779–1820) and Frances Poulett-Thomson (d. Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington.Maud, and Other Poems (1855) was Alfred Tennyson's first published collection after becoming poet laureate in 1850.Īmong the "other poems" was " The Charge of the Light Brigade", which had already been published in the Examiner a few months earlier. Maud is only seventeen by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale ![]()
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