Comparing 'Ulysses' by Lord Tennyson and 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning.
Comparing 'Ulysses' by Lord Tennyson and 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning. "Ulysses" was written by Lord Tennyson and is a poem about a mythical Greek character and is a dramatic monologue. Another poem that is a dramatic monologue is "My Last Duchess", by Robert Browning. Both poems are similar, for example they are both structured similarly, and are both different, one difference being their subject. In this essay I will compare the two poems, focusing on form, and how language helps to build up subject matter. Ulysses is a Greek mythical character, and was famous for being a pirate, ransacking villages and being a warrior. In Greek literature, Ulysses just seemed to disappear after he got home, and Tennyson decided to write about Ulysses and his thoughts after 'retiring' from fighting. The poem is written in verse, and seems to be either a dramatic monologue or monologue interior. It is hard to know which one, as a dramatic monologue must have a listener (other than the audience. Ulysses is talking to someone, his dead soldiers, but as they are deceased it is difficult to decide if they count as a listener to the poem. "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning was written in the same era as "Ulysses" and is written in Verse. This poem is different to "Ulysses" as this poem is about a fictional character which is created by Browning. This is a Dramatic Monologue, as the
Discuss how Tennyson has presented the Victorian age/spirit in Ulysses.
Discuss how Tennyson has presented the Victorian age/spirit in Ulysses. Or, Discuss Tennyson as a representative poet with reference to his poem Ulysses. Alfred Tennyson is often called the most representative poet of Victorian England. Perhaps this is one of the main factors that worked behind his enormous popularity during his life time. Even in Ulysses the main characteristics of Victorian period are clearly visible. Ulysses (published in 1842) was written to console himself after the death of his best friend Arthur Hallam. It is pertinent to mention here that the character of Ulysses has been taken from ancient Greek Mythology. The name Ulysses is the sign of mobility, of refusing limits. Tennyson's own grief and his resolution not to yield to it find their mythic translation in Ulysses. At the outset the main characteristics of Victorian Period (1832 - 1901) should be determined. In politics poor people particularly the working class was pressing for more and more democratic rights. So, there was eventual conflict between the working class and their rich employers. Even in religion, after the publication of Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, scientists were questioning about the exactness of the Bible and what the Christians believed. The Victorians were famous for their passion for morality. They did not like extreme feeling. So, in short, they were very
Comparing Ulysses and Not My Best Side Explore the Poets use of the Dramatic Monologue
2th July 2004 Philip Murphy By Comparing Ulysses and Not My Best Side Explore the Poets use of the Dramatic Monologue A dramatic monologue is a poem in which a single speaker who is not the poet utters the entire poem at a critical moment. The speaker may have a listener within the poem, but we too are his/her listener, and we learn about the speaker's character from what the speaker says. In fact, the speaker may unintentionally reveal certain aspects of his/her character. The reader often perceives a gap between what that speaker says and what he/she actually reveals, which is subject to interpretation. Ulysses, by Alfred Tennyson, is a dramatic representation of a man who has lost his faith in the gods and in the necessity of preserving order in his kingdom and his own life. The whole monologue takes place on Ulysses' death bed. It is a kind of dream, a means of momentary escape from the unwelcoming environment of Ithaca. It is merely the expression of a hero indulging himself in the fantasy that his beloved mariners are still alive. In this case, he can greet his dead sailors, and thus he can look forward to exploring the last great mystery - death. The Victorian's tended to read this poem fairly straight-forward, as an expression of unruffled confidence in the necessity of striving ever onward, even to death. If we look at this monologue in present-day terms,
Comparing Ulysses' (Tennyson) and Macbeth's (Shakespeare) Attitude Toward Power
Comparing Ulysses' (Tennyson) and Macbeth's (Shakespeare) Attitude Toward Power Both Ulysses and Macbeth were able to gain power of kingship, but the way they gained the powers are different. In this essay I am going to compare how they regard power, both differently and similarly. I intend to use Heinemann, (1994), version of Macbeth by Shakespeare and the class handout of Ulysses. The main focus of Macbeth will be from Act1 Scene 7, lines 1-28 and Act 2 Scene 1, line 33-61, whilst I will also take account of other related part throughout the play. Since Lord Tennyson and William Shakespeare are from different era in the history, their perspective of the world will be different, therefore I will also mention about Shakespeare's and Lord Tennyson's different perspective towards power and language they used. Most great writers reflect their attitude to life on their work, so it is important to consider the social and historical background of the Jacobeans- the time when Shakespeare wrote the play, and the Victorian time, when Lord Tennyson was alive. In Victorian times, Britain was a powerful country. There were unlimited opportunities for mainly the upper class people to broaden their knowledge by going to new places and experience the foreign cultures. When Lord Tennyson wrote this poem, he was grieving over his best friend's death. By writing this poem he was able to
A character sketch of Mrs Tweedie (from the film Chicken Run)
Anjali Badiani 10white In the film Chicken Run, the character of Mrs. Tweedie comes across as uptight, conservative and mean. This is shown in a number of different ways, her appearance, her strengths, her feelings and behaviour towards the other characters and the way the other characters behave towards her. The film Mrs. Tweedie has her tied up in a tight bun, her hair in a tight bun shows that Mrs. Tweedie is an unsympathetic and stern person. Mrs. Tweedie also comes into view as tall and thin; this is a stereotypical way to show hard hearted people. This also shows that Mrs. Tweedie has a spiteful and nasty personality. The camera men make Mrs. Tweedie look even bigger by the camera angel used, which shows she is meaner than she looks. In Chicken Run Mrs. Tweedie is also wearing military style boots, show the threatening character of Mrs. Tweedie. Mrs. Tweedie is a very powerful character in the film; she has more strengths than weaknesses. Mrs. Tweedie's main weakness is not listening to Mr. Tweedie. Mr. Tweedie knows that the chickens are up to something, every time Mr. Tweedie tries to tell Mr. Tweedie she tells him to "shut up". Another one of Mrs. Tweedie weakness is that is irritable. She is shown to be irritable and short tempered, when she killed the chicken because it was not laying any eggs. One of Mrs. Tweedie's strength is that she is frightening;
One of the intriguing aspects of Tennysons Ulysses is the fact that he sets his monologue years after the events of the Odyssey
Odysseus was the hero of the ancient Greek poet Homer's great epic poem, the Odyssey. Homer's earlier epic, the Iliad tells the story of Achilles and the other mythological heroes of the Trojan War. After the Trojan Prince Paris abducted the legendary beauty Helen of Troy from her husband, the Greek Menelaus, the Greeks launched a ten-year war against the Trojans in an effort to win Helen back. After a long and difficult war, the Greeks finally defeated the Trojans, and the Greek warriors returned to their homes in Greece. Odysseus's homeward journey, an arduous ten-year journey filled with many dangers, distractions, and adventures, comprises the story of the Odyssey. One of the intriguing aspects of Tennyson's "Ulysses" is the fact that he sets his monologue years after the events of the Odyssey - after Odysseus's many adventures on his journey, and after his long efforts to reclaim his household on the island of Ithaca. During his twenty-year absence, a host of greedy suitors had been hanging around his home, trying to convince Odysseus's lovely wife Penelope to give up waiting for her husband to return and to marry one of them instead. Tennyson's Ulysses is an old man, apparently addressing a group of men in an effort to raise a new crew for one final adventure at sea. The situation may have been suggested in part by the old prophet Tiresias' mysterious prediction of
Analyse the ways in which 'Ulysses' and one other poem explore religious and philosophical ideas.
Analyse the ways in which 'Ulysses' and one other poem explore religious and philosophical ideas. Both 'Ulysses' and 'God's Grandeur' explore the themes of religion and philosophy in depth. Hopkins' 'God's Grandeur' is perhaps the more religious, and Tennyson's 'Ulysses' the more philosophical. Beginning with the former, the concept of 'God' is obviously a universally recognised figure of supreme leadership, albeit interpreted in different ways by the different faiths. Hopkins himself was a devout Christian, and this is evident in the subtext of his poetry. "The world is charged with the grandeur of God." Hopkins' introductory quote immediately presents the belief that the power of nature stems from God. In the next two lines there is a contrast in that Hopkins' writes that this power will both 'flame' and 'ooze' out. The imagery of flaming out seems much more in agreement with the mentioned 'grandeur' of God, whereas oozing seems more of a reference to olives and the oil they produce. I think that here Hopkins is saying that sometimes God's power bursts out into the open for all to see, for miracles, and other times it oozes out gradually, unnoticeably. "Generations have trod, trod, trod" Here, the use of the heavy 'd' sounds could, again, reflect the mighty power of God. "And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;" A caesura is utilised in these
Eddie Carbone character sketch. I will be analysing Eddie Carbones character whilst occasionally making comments on the language and Arthur Millers skills as a dramatist.
Eddie Carbone character sketch "A view from the bridge" is a two-act tragic play by Arthur Miller in the mid 50s. This play puts light on the working American-Sicilian population, in particular the Carbone family, the head of which is Eddie Carbone. In this essay I will be analysing Eddie Carbone's character whilst occasionally making comments on the language and Arthur Miller's skills as a dramatist. Eddie is a simple, straight forward man that lives with his beloved wife and niece. Alfieri describes Eddie as a "long shore man". He is very protective over his orphaned niece, Catherine. Arthur Miller uses informal language to show Eddie's social class. It is worthy to note that Arthur Miller was skilfully able to come down to the status of long shore man and was able to produce speech successfully in their tone and language. Eddie is portrayed as generous, but at the same time selfish and self-protective. This is since, although he is generous to offer his home to two of his wife's cousins, Marco and Rodolfo, he believes he is Superior. This is shown as he reminds Beatrice not to offer them his bed and he is very jealous of anyone that gets too close to Catherine. This jealousy also adds to his hardship in accepting Rodolfo and Catherine's relationship, another reason to this envy is his over-protective nature. He has brought up Catherine as his own daughter and feels
Discuss Joyce's treatment of women in Dubliners, Portrait and selected chapters of Ulysses.
Joyce Essay Q. Discuss Joyce's treatment of women in Dubliners, Portrait and selected chapters of Ulysses. Joyce's depiction of women is characterised by a high degree of self-consciousness, perhaps even more so than in the rest of his work. The self-consciousness emerges as an awareness of both genre and linguistic expectations. Contrasting highly self-conscious, isolated literary men (or men with literary aspirations) with women who follow more romantic models, even stereotypes. In Dubliners, Joyce utilizes a clichéd story of doomed love ending in death - physical or spiritual - in "A Painful Case" and in "The Dead." The former holds far more to these conventions and can be read as a precursor to the more sophisticated techniques in the latter, which draws the reader's attention to the cliché only to redirect it. Nevertheless, it is Joyce's achievement here, his subversion of genre that takes the main stage, and the women in the stories to fade into the background. Furthermore, In Joyce's canon women are both desirable objects and the subject of desire or as Henke (1990: P.2) states 'the incomparable other who remains mysterious and enigmatic.' She also mentions that his female characters frequently embody 'that imaginary maternal presence that the unconscious constructs as a corollary to the pleasure principal of infantile need.' Traditionally readers and
Compare and contrast Ulysses and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock in their treatment of ageing and ambition
Compare and contrast Ulysses and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock in their treatment of ageing and ambition The title of Eliot's poem initially suggests that it is not a traditional love poem at all. Eliot's choice to use the initial "J" instead of a first name implies a sense of importance, however Prufrock is a connotation of a "prude" in a "frock" which pokes fun at the pompous nature of the name and implies a subliminal other meaning to the name. Prufrock begins in the unpleasant modern world, which is comparable to "da Montefeltro" in Dante's "Inferno" being trapped in hell; however Prufrock is fixed in a lonely, isolating city. This reflects Prufrock's ambition, because he is insecure and feels as if he is trapped and cannot go anywhere. Eliot's imagery is extremely important in illustrating pieces of Prufrock's personality. He uses images of the city being bleak and frightening. The image of "the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table" shows that Prufrock's view of the world is that it is bleak and empty. This also illustrates Prufrock's lack of ambition because it shows that he feels there is nothing good in the world worth trying for. Prufrock is afraid to speak to the women he sees because he thinks that he wont be able to say anything capable of making them become interested in him, and his overwhelming insecurity and fears
