ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Balaklava, published in 1855 in Maud and Other Poems. Maud itself, a strange and turbulent “monodrama, ” provoked a storm of protest; many of the poet’s admirers were shocked by the morbidity, hysteria, and bellicosity of the hero. Yet Maud was Tennyson’s favourite among his poems.

Detailed explanation-2: -Maud: A Monodrama is a dramatic monologue because of the style Tennyson used to write the poem.

Detailed explanation-3: -Maud, poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, composed in 1854 and published in Maud and Other Poems in 1855. The poem’s morbid narrator tells of his father’s suicide following financial ruin. Lonely and miserable, he falls in love with Maud, the daughter of the wealthy neighbour who led his father into bankruptcy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tennyson wrote many of his most famous poems, such as ‘Morte d’Arthur’, ‘Ulysses’ and ‘St Simeon Stylites’ in the period between Hallam’s death and the publication of In Memoriam. In 1847 he published The Princess, a long narrative poem on the subject of women’s education.

Detailed explanation-5: -Tennyson’s final division of Maud into three parts is reasonable [115/116] and obviously sound.