In these years, Tennyson had already demonstrated a flair (stile) for writing verse and in 1827 he had even published a volume in collaboration with his brother: “Poems by two brothers”. After having lived in a parsonage (casa del pastore), the family moved to Cambridge. One of his brothers was insane, another was addicted to opium and another had violent quarrels with his father. There is NO ironic element THE LIFE OF TENNYSON, FROM NORTON ANTHOLOGY ALFRED LORD TENNYSON, 1809 – 1892 he was the fourth son in a family of 12 children. The speaking I is also the poet (no!!) 2. Ironic elements These two points are not completely respected, because: 1. A way to keep the distance between the author and the reader 3. The speaking I (which is not the author) + silent interlocutor 2. It is a dramatic monologue (pioneerd by Robert Browning) because it has a connection with the THEATRE (soliloquy). He is a character speaking to someone (us, the reader, or to the mariners who are silent). He sends messages to his own people DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE “Ulysses” speaks in the first person, but independently from Tennyson the poet. For example: -He celebrates the Duke of Wellington -He talks about England as a great country, but warning England that it can go through difficult periods of crisis and fall. The public Tennyson: expressing joy and hope, celebrating the nation, warning the nation, about social issue or about the woman question (The Lady of Shalott, The princess). Himself as a man, intimate, emotional side, where he records his personal experiences. expressing sadness, melancholy, passion of the past. The private Tennyson: isolated upbringing, his father’s alcoholism and epilepsy, his brother’s madness. The poem describes a group of mariners who, upon eating the lotus, are put into an altered state and isolated from the outside world – the contrary of Ulysses) vs urge to face tempests (individually or socially: Ulysses vs Telemachus) TENNYSON’S OWN “TWO VOICES” 1. ![]() Pessimism and Optimism: / despair and joy (“The two voices, 1842) -Pro and against progress (two “Locksley Hall” poems, 18 that deal with the idea of progress) – melancholy vs dolorous acceptance that “all truth is change” (pantha rei) -Desire of escape from society and even oneself (“The Lotus Eaters” was inspired by his trip to Spain with his close friend Arthur Hallam, where they visited the Pyrenees mountains. ![]() His poetry reflects the contradictions (tensions and wavering moods) of the Victorian Age, that are for example: -Religion: from despair, to disbelief, to doubt, and then hope (In Memoriam AHH, 1850, dedicated to the same friend that is nominated in Ulysses). ![]() In Dante, in fact, he goes for another journey because he couldn’t stop (Omero + Dante + Pascoli) 1850: poet laureate (of the Queen). Scarica Ulysses by Tennyson e più Appunti in PDF di Letteratura Inglese solo su Docsity! ULYSSES by Tennyson (1833, published in 1842) Tennyson belonged to the Victorian Age (1847-1901) There is a prophecy about Ulysses.
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