Notes of April 16th 2012

TS Eliot uses as poetry form the dramatic monologue, it is inherited by Victorianism.
The dramatic monologue is taken from theatre setting. It is made by a dramatis personae which is a character different by the poet who speak about himself and about one own crucial situation of his life. The language used is similar to everyday speech that is a colloquial form of language composed by fillers and deitics (space and time's reference). The dramatic monologue is in first person singular. The most important exponent's of poetry in Victorianism is Mr Tennyson and Mr Browning.

Tennyson's Ulysses' monologue

The poet write this monologue in a particular moment of his life, when died one of his close friend A.H. Hallman; Tennyson writes this monologue with the aim to create a tool to face the life.

Ulysses represents a myth and is associated to knowledge and the pursuit of it.

In this monologue Ulysses comes back from his voyage, he is an idle king and finds his homeland barren and his wife aged. The only actions he makes is mete and dole unequal laws to a savage race. In these verses emerge the utilitarism vision, feature of Victorianism.
Using verbs of perception and existence Tennyson expresses perfectly Ulysses' will to travel and know. Ulysses is a very passionate man, he will drink life to the less; he has enjoy'd greatly the specifically use of this adverb communicates how Ulysses lives is life without restriction, able to face the more positive and negative situation. Ulysses is For always roaming with a hungry heart.