Ppt on the brook for class 9 made by nishant jain

2. The Brook
I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
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 for ever.

3. I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles.
With many a curve my banks I fret
By many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set
With willow-weed and mallow.
,
I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

4. I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling,
And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a silvery waterbreak
Above the golden gravel,
And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

5. I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.
I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.
I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses;

6. And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

7. The Brook is an exclusive private gentlemen's club located at 111 East
54th Street in Manhattan (New York City).
It was founded in 1903 by a group of prominent men who belonged to
other New York City private clubs, such as the Knickerbocker Club, the
Union Club of the City of New York, and the Metropolitan Club.[1]
The name is derived from the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem The Brook,
whose lines "For men may come and men may go, but I go on for
ever" were consistent with the intention that the Club would provide
24-hour service and would never close its doors.[1] In 1992, the City
Journal wrote that the name was "supposed to mean that the Club is
always open and the conversation flows on forever," but that "neither
is strictly true."[2] One version of the club's origin holds that The
Brook was formed by two young men who had been expelled from the
Union Club for trying to poach an egg on the bald head of another
club member.[

8. Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of the United
Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most
popular poets in the English language.
Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, such as "In the Valley of Cauteretz",
"Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears"
and "Crossing the Bar". Much of his verse was based on classical mythological
themes, such as Ulysses, although In Memoriam A.H.H. was written to
commemorate his best friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and fellow student at
Trinity College, Cambridge, who was engaged to Tennyson's sister, but died from a
brain haemorrhage before they could marry. Tennyson also wrote some notable
blank verse including Idylls of the King, "Ulysses," and "Tithonus." During his
career, Tennyson attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little success.

9. A number of phrases from Tennyson's work have become commonplaces of the
English language, including "Nature, red in tooth and claw", "'Tis better to have
loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all", "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs
but to do and die", "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is
pure", "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers", and "The old order changeth,
yielding place to new". He is the ninth most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations.
In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his
first pieces, "Timbuctoo." Reportedly, "it was thought to be no slight honour for a
young man of twenty to win the chancellor's gold medal."He published his first solo
collection of poems, Poems Chiefly Lyrical in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana",
which later took their place among Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included
in this volume. Although decried by some critics as overly sentimental, his verse soon
proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the
day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

10. Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, a rector's son and fourth of 12 children. He
derived from a middle-class line of Tennysons, but also had noble and royal ancestry.
His father, George Clayton Tennyson (1778–1831), was rector of Somersby (1807–1831), also
rector of Benniworth and Bag Enderby, and vicar of Grimsby (1815). The rector was the elder of
two sons, but was disinherited at an early age by his father, the landowner George Tennyson
(1750–1835) (owner of Bayons Manor and Usselby Hall), in favour of his younger brother
Charles, who later took the name Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt. Rev. George Clayton Tennyson
raised a large family and "was a man of superior abilities and varied attainments, who tried his
hand with fair success in architecture, painting, music, and poetry. He was comfortably well off
for a country clergyman and his shrewd money management enabled the family to spend
summers at Mablethorpe and Skegness, on the eastern coast of England." Alfred Tennyson's
mother, Elizabeth Fytche (1781–1865), was the daughter of Stephen Fytche (1734–1799), vicar
of St. James Church, Louth (1764) and rector of Withcall (1780), a small village between
Horncastle and Louth. Tennyson's father "carefully attended to the education and training of his
children."