Maud, and Other Poems (Version 2)
Author: first_name: Alfred, Lord
last_name: Tennyson
Language: English
Year: 1859

Surely everyone knows “Maud”? Isn’t that the Victorian love song, where the man waits by the garden gate for his lover to appear for a secret rendezvous? Well, that may be the song, but Tennyson’s poem is longer and very much darker. It deals not with love but with the obsession of an unstable young man with the seventeen-year-old Maud, and his gradual descent into madness.

The poem’s narrator has been excluded from an evening ball being held at Maud’s home, The Hall, and has climbed into her g