ENOCH ARDEN

ENOCH ARDEN is a poem of Tennyson. It is one of his happiest efforts to translate an incident of common life into the domain of poetry.

Enoch Arden is the hero of the poem. He was a sailor, presumed to be lost, and whose wife marries another. On his return from the sea, after a long absence, he finds his wife happily wedded to another person. He, then, bears the sorrow rather than disturbing her felicity by revealing himself. He preferred not to disclose himself, and dies broken-hearted.