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Locksley Hall is a notable literary work by Alfred Lord Tennyson. A complete discussion of this literary work is given, which will help you enhance your literary skills and prepare for the exam. Read the Main texts, Key info, Summary, Themes, Characters, Literary devices, Quotations, Notes, and various study materials of Locksley Hall.

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Key Facts: 

  • Writer: Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
  • Title of the Author:
  • Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (1850-1892)
  • One of the most prominent Victorian poets
  • Representative poet of the Victorian Age.
    • Full Title: Locksley Hall
    • Written Time: 1835
    • Published date: 1842. Tennyson’s collection titled “Poems”. 
    • Total Lines: 194
    • Genre: Dramatic monologue as a set of 97 couplets.
    • Tone: Romantic, Reflective, Optimistic, Melancholic
    • Point of view or position: First person or subjective point of view.
    • Technical excellence of the poem: Melancholic reflection.
    • Source of the idea of the poem: Tennyson has taken his idea of the poem “Locksley Hall” from “Moallakat” or “Muallaqak”, which is a suspended poem of Arabian Literature and was composed in nearly seventh century and hung up in the Temple at Mecca.
  • Setting:
  • Time Setting: During the narrator’s youth, reflecting on past events
  • Place Setting: The poem is set in a fictional location, Locksley Hall, a country house, with a broader setting suggested as a symbolic space for romantic hope and reflection.

Key Notes: 

  • What is Locksley Hall in the poem?

No definite mansion or castle is meant, but its imaginary situation is described.

Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote the poem “Locksley Hall” in 1835, when he was 26 years old. The poem was inspired by his personal life, his failure in love, and the frustrations of youth. The sadness from his broken relationship with his first love, Emily Sellwood, combined with his hopes and disappointments about society and the future, led Tennyson to write this poem. Tennyson wrote this poem about the future of British society and civilization, scientific advancement, the pain of failed love, and the meaning of life.