Alfred Tennyson e o ideal orgânico de civilização

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Vanessa da
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12649
• topic: Orgânico; Corpo; Mecânico; Cultura nacional; Civilidade; Organic; Body; Mechanic; National culture; Courtesy; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

The present research evidences how the poet Alfred Tennyson, developed the values of the courtesy, surrounded by a conservationist moral, in the constitution of the culture named national culture form the Victorian England. To achieve that, it became necessary for us to understand how Tennyson approached the social organic stage, opposite to the denominated Mechanical Age. The poet, who was laureate by the English royalty, is part of a movement, from England of the XIX century, which goes back to the Middle Ages to try to manipulate a national tradition. This movement, known as medieval revival, contributed to the values building, which resulted in the present society development. Added to this, Alfred Tennyson, was known as the voice of the Victorian England, who has really few historical studies of his poems, what makes him an author who still have a lot of things to be studied. In this essay, we have analyzed the poems The Coming of Arthur, Merlin and Vivien and Merlin and The Gleam, as the main historical documents. We have approached mainly the Merlin character. We have focused sometimes on the analyzing of the character body, and sometimes on the identification which the poet established with the wizard. Through Merlin´s positioning and voice , we have observed the organic society defended by the poet. This (organically) way of observing the society was related to the building of a national culture. This culture, according to Tennyson, should be built and consolidated by people education. The way of educating, to the author, happened through his poems, which carried morality and courtesy ideals