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Tennyson's Ulysses - Online Term Paper

Tennyson's Ulysses

Jamaris Lowry
Dr. Brown
English 101, Section 006
11 February 2015
Paper 1 (Rough Draft)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses" expresses a powerful message about life and time. Though it may seem these two would go head-to-head, Tennyson finds a connection between the two in Ulysses' story. Conveying that living life to the fullest is a journey that can only be ended by death; age doesn't put a stop to you fulfilling your aspirations in life and time is on your side. Because the poem was written shortly after Tennyson's close friend, Arthur Henry Hallam, died some may see a connection between Ulysses and Tennyson. "Ulysses" is a testimony of Tennyson's commitment to keep living and ...

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during his time of grief and him taking the high road, to move on despite being aware that "death closes all" (line 51). Seeing himself as an aging man who had been stripped of the desire for adventure, while facing the fast-approach of death, the poet chose to keep on living and writing. With the hope of one day getting to see "the great Achilles," (line 64) represented as Hallam, Tennyson had to commit to living. This idea is supported by Tennyson's comment, from Hallam Tennyson's Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A Memoir, that "Ulysses" revealed his "feeling about the need of going forward, and braving the struggle of life" after Hallam passed away.

In "Ulysses" there are many poetic devices that Tennyson uses to portray vivid imagery such as, metaphor, simile, and personification. An example of a metaphor was, "Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world, whose margin fades..." (line 19). With this metaphor it sort of compares the experiences someone may ...

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Added: 3/4/2015 01:16:16 AM
Submitted By: Usc18
Category: Poetry & Poets
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