What Is The Summary Of Poem The Brook By Alfred Lord Tennyson?

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 hern’ 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.

Tennyson wrote at a time when it was fashionable for Victorian poets to idealize nature and to see nature as perfect and human society as flawed and unnatural. This view came about partly because of the industrial revolution which, in Tennyson’s day, had turned England into a land of ‘Dark, satanic mills’ in Blake’s words.

The poem, 'The Brook' is a metaphore of the human life in the form of river. The poem starts as a swift, loud, stream. The brook traveles trough 20 or so villages, 50 bridges and 30 hills till it reaches the river at Phillip's farm.
  The brook carries objects such as fish, foamy bubbles, and flowers which represent a person carrieing their family, friends, and other important objects. The brook eventuly slows down which represents that a person is reaching middle age & is becoming less hyper. The brook now travels trough thorny bushes & forgat-me-not flowers which is a metaphoe for the troubles and joys in life when your a middle-age person who is probaly a middle class person in sociaty.  The fuming bit in the poem is about the brook not alowd to travel in strait lines but in twists and turns which is a metaphore for anger in the poem. The brook then "dies" or enters the river which is the final metaphore for death of a person & the river is  the all mighty or the combination of all (if you belive in the afterlife or something like that). The poem end by stating the refrain which is:
' for men may come and men may go
but I go on for ever'
This basicly states that man is mortal while nature is immortal. A human can only live for so long before that person dies but the brook and nature is never-ending and will out live humans.The brook will flow long after a person is dead.This is basily what the poem represents.

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In this poem Tennyson speaks about the journey of a small brook which later joins a
mighty river. The poem is narrated in the First Person by the small brook. Here we come
across the journey of the brook till it merges in a bigger river. The harmony of sound with
sense here is enchanting. The refrain of the poem contrasts, the careless flow of the brook
with the brevity of human life.
The poet has realistically drawn a parr alism between the journey of the brook with the life of a man... The poet says as in the childhood the a child is very agile, energetic and lively , like that only the brook in the begining stage of its life is very powerful, enhancing and it keeps on flowing with a great rush and enthusiasm through out its life .it falls from great heights and menders around the wavy path, and when it approches on plain it becomes very slow and continues to flow eternally .like the brook a man toward the end of his life he becomes slow in his moves and ultimately meets the horns of death and the brook also emerges with its final destination but it never ends to flow.

The poem is about a long stream . The poet starts the poem by describing the journey of the stream,it starts from a place that is frequently visited by coot(a water bird with a white spot on the head) and hern(heron;another type of water bird) and make a sudden emerge. They flows out among te bushes and flow down a Vally with lot of noise. It crosses thirty hills , slip down the ridges, twenty villages, fifty bridges. The poet also do a comparison between stream and human that man take birth and die but I live forever. The poem is mainly about the journey of stream and how at philip's farm it join the river. The poet also has created a beautiful picture of nature like blossom sailing on stream , the falling sun lights forming a sparkle net on stream ,the mixture of sand and stones forming a silvery water break, of a type of flower that grow for happy lovers.
The poem will refresh the streams of brains and invite you to  enjoy the nice cool winds flowing near the stream

Ita is all about human life......the poet has drawn a very real parallelism between the brook and the human life......this is all about the different stages of human life...childhood.....then the age of maturity....n then the old age...

About the poet----break break break is a pure lamentation on the death of poets best friend arthur hallam who died in prime of his youth the whole poem symbolises poets unbounded love for his friend hallam .the poem seems to be inspired by the death of his friend.his memories haunted tennyson for many years . The poem is fully enriched with the feeling of nostalgia