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The phrase flower in the crannied wall is sometimes used in a metaphorical sense for the idea of seeking holistic and grander principles from constituent parts and their connections. [7] The poem can be interpreted as Tennyson’s perspective on the connection between God and Nature. [ 8 ]
Wishing well plaque commemorating composition of Flower in the Crannied Wall. Waggoners Wells is set amongst woodland in a steep valley situated between Ludshott Common to the north west and Bramshott Common to the south east. The original name of the series of ponds was Wakeners' Wells.
Poems, by Alfred Tennyson, was a two-volume 1842 collection in which new poems and reworked older ones were printed in separate volumes.It includes some of Tennyson's finest and best-loved poems, [1] [2] such as Mariana, The Lady of Shalott, The Palace of Art, The Lotos Eaters, Ulysses, Locksley Hall, The Two Voices, Sir Galahad, and Break, Break, Break.
Of these the poems in italics appeared in the edition of 1842, and were not much altered.Those with an asterisk were, in addition to the italicised poems, afterwards included among the Juvenilia in the collected works (1871–1872), though excluded from all preceding editions of the poems.
Grave of Frederick Tennyson in Highgate Cemetery. Frederick Tennyson was the eldest son of George Clayton Tennyson, Rector of Somersby, Lincolnshire, and brother of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
The poem was inspired by Charlotte Rosa Baring, younger daughter of William Baring (1779–1820) and Frances Poulett-Thomson (d. 1877). Frances Baring married, secondly, Arthur Eden (1793–1874), Assistant-Comptroller of the Exchequer, and they lived at Harrington Hall, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, which is the garden of the poem (also referred to as "the Eden where she dwelt" in Tennyson's poem ...
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The base of the bronze sculpture contains a quote by the English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson from his poem Flower in the Crannied Wall. The quote reads “Little flower - if I could understand what you are root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.” The sculpture rests on a rough granite stone that is six feet high.