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 compare brooks jorney with the life journey of man

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@Archi, your friend Vinisha has very well put in an effort in giving an answer to your query. However, here is a sample solution for your reference:

The brook appears to be a symbol for life, which becomes the central theme of the poem. Various instances can be seen in the poem which draw parallel between brook and life, such as:
  • When the brook comes out from the mountains, its movement is very noisy and quick and it is in full vigour. It is in a hurry to reach its destination, that is, the river. Similarly, man, in his youth, is very energetic, lively, enthusiastic and full of vigour.
  • When the brook comes closer to the river, its movement becomes slow and smooth, which can be compared to man in his old age, who becomes very calm, gentle, soft and lethargic.
  • In the early phase of the brook’s life, it has a very fast motion and it overcomes all the obstacles, stones and pebbles in its way. This nature of the brook can be compared to man in his youth when he is enthusiastic and is ready to face all the challenges that come in his way.
  • During the course of the brook’s journey, it takes a lot of things along with it like blossoms, silt, gravel and fish. In the same way, man even meets, accompanies and moves forward in life with the people he meets, in the journey of his life.
  • The only difference between the two can be drawn by the fact that the brook is eternal and has a continuous flow while the human life ends by the arrival of death.
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In his famous poem The Brook, Tennyson is imagining what it would be like to be a brook, or stream, running down the mountainside and across country until it joins a river.  He contrasts the relative permanence and enduring nature of a natural feature like a brook, with the impermanence and fleeting nature of human life.

In the poem, Tennyson has the brilliantly original idea of making the brook itself the narrator.  Instead of seeing the beauties of nature through the eyes of a human poet, we see the world as the stream itself sees it.

The brook rises in a remote spot in the wooded hills, the ‘haunt of coot and tern’ and then gradually descends through thirty hills, twenty small hills and fifty bridges.  It then flows past Philip’s farm, past ‘lawns, glassy plots and hazel covers’ and eventually joins the ‘brimming river’, that is swollen, probably with the spring rains and meltwaters.

On its long journey to the river, and eventually we suppose to the sea, the brook passes many different kinds of terrain, almost like a human journey on which one experiences adventures.

As it rushes down the hills, the brook makes a kind of natural music , or singing, its swirling water chattering and babbling as it dashes against the gravel of the stream bed producing almost musical notes.  The brook wanders through land that is cultivated and land that is wild and natural.  It encounters fish leaping on its journey.
 
 
this poem shows the difficulties that 1 face from birth 2 death n how a man become happy,sad n when it got engry.

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