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Surely everyone knows “Maud”? Isn’t that the Victorian love song, where the man waits by the garden gate for his lover to appear for a secret rendezvous? Well, that may be the song, but Tennyson’s poem is longer and very much darker. It deals not with love but with the obsession of an unstable young man with the seventeen-year-old Maud, and his gradual descent into madness.
The poem’s narrator has been excluded from an evening ball being held at Maud’s home, The Hall, and has climbed into her garden uninvited, convincing himself by a misreading the Language of Flowers that she has sent him a love-token in the form of a rose blossom. After the guests have left, Maud and her brother step out into the dawn, and soon the brother is lying mortally wounded at the narrator’s hand. He flees abroad, and later loses his reason after hearing of Maud’s own death. Finally, the narrator insists that he has at last recovered from his “old hysterical mock-disease” and has awakened to a better mind, fighting for his country in the Crimean War. But can he be believed? Many early reviewers took the narrator as stating the poet's own views on war, but Tennyson himself responded that he would hardly have chosen a narrator with an "hereditary vein of insanity" to represent his personal opinions.
The collection includes several other well-known Tennyson poems, including “The Brook, an Idyl”, and “The Charge of the Light Brigade”. (Michael Maggs)
- Text source (only read from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56913
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- Project Code: SCyk4PJI
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Genres for the project: Poetry/Single author
Keywords that describe the book:
Brook
Charge
Light Brigade
Wellington
Will
Letters
Daisy
Maurice
============================================ - The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):- "[Poem title] from Maud, and Other Poems. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
"Recording by Michael Maggs - Say:
"Maud, and Other Poems, by Alfred Tennyson. [Poem title]"
For the second and all subsequent sections:- "[Poem title] from Maud, and Other Poems by Alfred Tennyson. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
- "Recording by Michael Maggs"
- "[Poem title]"
- At the end of the section, say:
"End of [Poem title]" - At the end of the book, say (in addition):
"End of Maud, and Other Poems, by Alfred Tennyson. "
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording. - "[Poem title] from Maud, and Other Poems. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
- Example filename maudandotherpoems_##_tennyson_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. maudandotherpoems_01_tennyson_128kb.mp3)
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Artist: Alfred Tennyson
Title: ## - [Section title]
Album: Maud, and Other Poems
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- Project Code: SCyk4PJI