The poetry of Tennyson is characterised by a wide outlook, by intense sympathy, with the deepest feelings and aspirations of humanity, a profound realisation of the problems of life and thought, an exquisite sense of beauty and a marvellous power of vivid and minute description, often achieved by a single felicitous phrase and heightened by the perfect matching of sense and sound. No poet has excelled him in precision and delicacy of language and completeness of expression.The poetry of Tennyson is characterised by a wide outlook, by intense sympathy, with the deepest feelings and aspirations of humanity, a profound realisation of the problems of life and thought, an exquisite sense of beauty and a marvellous power of vivid and minute description, often achieved by a single felicitous phrase and heightened by the perfect matching of sense and sound. No poet has excelled him in precision and delicacy of language and completeness of expression.