Thursday 20 August 2009

Please provide a literary critical analysis of "Ulysses" by Tennyson.

Alfred
Lord Tennyson's poem "" is a dramatic , written in the voice of Odysseus, the hero of
Homer's Odyssey, after he has returned home to Ithaca. In this poem, theexpresses restlessness
with the constrained life he now leads in contrast to the heroism of his earlier days. Because
we see the poem unfold only through the viewpoint of the protagonists, Tennyson leaves us to
make our own judgment about the central decision in the poem and whether it is or is not
admirable. OIn terms of literary technique, the paring away of inessentials from the
protagonists life to return to the heroic core, is echoed in versification that moves from
leisurely and discursive to the strikingly abrupt monosyllables of the last lines, and from an
adjective and adverb laden type of construction to pure
verbs.

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