Maud - Part 1 - 7.
Maud - Part 1 - 7. - context Summary
Published in 1855
Part 1, section 7 of Tennyson's Maud presents a dreamlike, uncertain voice who overhears men speaking about a child and repeats the strange, half-remembered lines. The passage blurs waking and sleeping perception and introduces anxiety about reputation, inheritance, and desire. Published in 1855 within Maud, and Other Poems, the poem reflects Tennyson's recurring preoccupations with love, loss, and fragile mental states tied to his personal life.
Read Complete Analyses1 Did I hear it half in a doze Long since, I know not where? Did I dream it an hour ago, When asleep in this arm-chair? 2 Men were drinking together, Drinking and talking of me; 'Well, if it prove a girl, the boy Will have plenty: so let it be.' 3 Is it an echo of something Read with a boy's delight, Viziers nodding together In some Arabian night? 4 Strange, that I hear two men, Somewhere, talking of me; 'Well, if it prove a girl, my boy Will have plenty: so let it be.'
Feel free to be first to leave comment.