The brook - Alfred lord Tennyson Paraphrase
Introduction of the poem The brook is a very beautiful poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson in which the brook narrates its story itself. The poem traces the journey of a brook from its origin to its mouth. The poem seems to be very simple but through the simplicity, it has a very deep message to convey. The refrain in the poem suggests that man is mortal but nature is eternal we may come and go but nature stays forever. In short, it is an autobiography of a brook which tells us that it starts flowing from the hills and will flow forever and ever. Paraphrase of the poem - I come from the haunts of coot and hern. I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fem, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down. Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorpes, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's farm, I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go. But I go on forever. The narrator of the poem i.e. the brook takes us along its ...