ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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Who is the writer of ‘Tithonus’?
A
A. Lord Tennyson
B
George Bernard Shaw
C
Christopher Marlowe
D
William Shakespeare
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Tithonus by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Poetry Foundation.

Detailed explanation-2: -’Tithonus’: analysis Well, Tennyson wrote ‘Tithonus’ in 1833, shortly after the death of his friend Arthur Hallam, who also inspired a number of Tennyson’s other poems, most famously his long elegy In Memoriam (1850).

Detailed explanation-3: -"Tithonus” is a poem by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92), originally written in 1833 as “Tithon” and completed in 1859. It first appeared in the February edition of the Cornhill Magazine in 1860. Faced with old age, Tithonus, weary of his immortality, yearns for death.

Detailed explanation-4: -’Tithonus’ by Lord Alfred Tennyson describes the plight of Tithonus who is cursed to an immortal life in which he continues to age. The poem begins with the speaker, Tithonus, desiring how sorrowful the naturally aging woods make him. Unlike all the other elements of the world, he is unable to die.

Detailed explanation-5: -The best-known poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, included “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and “Crossing the Bar.” His longer works included In Memoriam, inspired by his grief over the untimely death of a friend, and Idylls of the King, based on Arthurian legend.

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