"Enoch Arden" is a poem published in 1864 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, during his tenure as England's Poet Laureate. Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and is one of the most popular English poets. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... A Poet Laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and often expected to compose poems for State occasions and other government events. ...
The hero of the poem, fisherman turned merchant sailor Enoch Arden, leaves his wife Annie and three children to go to sea with his old captain, who is offering him work. Enoch had lost his job when he fell victim to an accident; in a manner that reflects the hero's masculine view of personal toil and hardship to support his family, Enoch Arden left his family to better serve them as a husband and father. However during his voyage he is shipwrecked and remains lost and missing for ten years. He finds upon his return from the sea that, after his long absence, his wife, who believed him dead, is married happily to another man, his childhood friend Philip (Annie has known both men since her childhood, thus the rivalry), and has a child by him. The unfullfillment of his life with Annie and his children, together with Philip taking his place, Enoch must watch someone else raise his son and daughter (the third child, a boy, dies just after Enoch leaves on his trek). Tragically Enoch does not ever disclose himself to her that he is really alive, and he dies of a broken heart.
In the 1940screwball comedyMy Favorite Wife, the character Ellen Wagstaff Arden (Irene Dunne) is a comic inversion of Enoch Arden. She returns from sea and boldly reclaims her husband and children.
The poem was set to music by Richard Strauss (Enoch Arden Op. 38). The work requires a narrator and pianist. It has been recorded by Glenn Gould and Claude Rains It has also been performed widely in 2007 by Emmanuel Ax (piano) and Patrick Stewart (reciter) and recorded for release in September 2007.
"EnochArden" is a poem published in 1864 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, during his tenure as England's Poet Laureate.
Enoch had lost his job when he fell victim to an accident; in a manner that reflects the hero's masculine view of personal toil and hardship to support his family, EnochArden left his family to better serve them as a husband and father.
EnochArden is the alias taken by Robert Underhay, a character in Agatha Christie's novel, Taken at the Flood, who disappears in order to set his wife free of their marriage.
Arden was born Florence Nightingale Graham in Woodbridge, Ontario, where she lived until she was twenty-four years old.
Arden is also notable for creating foundations that matched a person's skin tone; creating the idea of the "Total Look" in which eye, lip, cheek, and fingernail colors matched or coordinated; and she was the first to make a cosmetics commercial shown in movie houses.
Arden used the name Maine Chance Farm for her thoroughbred horse racing and breeding operation in Lexington, Kentucky.
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