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RMinetto - Victorian Poetry and The Dramatic Monologue - Ulysses, analysis
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Ulysses is a poem written by Lord Alfred Tennyson in 1833 in form of drammatic monologue, that it there is a speaking voice who doesn't coinceeds with the poet and talks about his critical situation.
In the work, the speaking voice is an old Ulysses who has come back to his voyages. He doesn't like the king's life becuse he can't be dynamic anymore. So he doesn't feel at ease and he doesn't like poeple, his wife and his land: he doesn't love his wife who has become old, he doesn't bear his subjects because they are seen as saveges who think only to the utility and he doesn't like the land because it isn't fertile. Ulysses then moves from the outside, that is from his duties and his responsabilities, to the inside and he reflects about his life ( indeed a coming back implies a reflection). He remembers his voyages and he would want to leave for a new one because only in this way he can live life fully, enjoing and suffring. The intesity of the emotions he felt is expressed by the repetition of the adverb "greatly". Living is seen by Ulysses in a social level and in an individual level, indeed when he travelled he was always together with poeple and at the same time he had the opportunity to improve himself as well as to satisfy his desire of knowledge of the world. So the voyage is seen also in a existencial demension. Lord Alfred Tennyson privileges the use of perception verbs and he adopts alliterations and repetitions.
In the work, the speaking voice is an old Ulysses who has come back to his voyages. He doesn't like the king's life becuse he can't be dynamic anymore. So he doesn't feel at ease and he doesn't like poeple, his wife and his land: he doesn't love his wife who has become old, he doesn't bear his subjects because they are seen as saveges who think only to the utility and he doesn't like the land because it isn't fertile. Ulysses then moves from the outside, that is from his duties and his responsabilities, to the inside and he reflects about his life ( indeed a coming back implies a reflection). He remembers his voyages and he would want to leave for a new one because only in this way he can live life fully, enjoing and suffring. The intesity of the emotions he felt is expressed by the repetition of the adverb "greatly". Living is seen by Ulysses in a social level and in an individual level, indeed when he travelled he was always together with poeple and at the same time he had the opportunity to improve himself as well as to satisfy his desire of knowledge of the world. So the voyage is seen also in a existencial demension. Lord Alfred Tennyson privileges the use of perception verbs and he adopts alliterations and repetitions.