In this semester‚ we’ve learned Homer’s work” odyssey. While in another course I take‚ I studied another work done by Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson called Ulysses which is based on the story of Odyssey. Now I want to make some analysis and contrasts between the two works. I think the biggest difference between the works is the features of the main character so now; I am going to analyze the traits of the main character. Odysseus in Odyssey is a combination of the self-made‚ self-assured man and the
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sailing and searching for new lands‚ rather than just be the king of his homeland. Are there similarities and also differences between both poems‚ I believe there is and will explain why. The poems “Ulysses” and “Odysseus” written by Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson and W.S. Merwin‚ are somewhat very similar and we can compare them as well. In the poem “Ulysses”‚ Odysseus is talking to us. He basically talks about how he would rather pass on the throne to his son Telemachus‚ and rather travel abroad to find
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The poet Wilfred lord Tennyson gets the moral of his poem the charge of the light bigrde from a charge of British cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War .he describes the six hundred courageous men
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Conflict is a main theme in war poetry as will be shown throughout this assessment. In ‘The Man He Killed’ By Thomas Hardy the speaker is a young soldier who has killed an enemy in the Boer War and is experiencing guilt and regret about his actions‚ as further on in the poem he considers him as a friend had they met under different circumstances ‘You shoot a fellow down You’d treat if met where any bar is’. The theme of the poem is about the man that the young soldier has killed. The poem is spoken
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seem to escape her dreary life on her old beat down farm day after day. In the poem the author uses the lines every other verse “She only said‚ "My life is dreary‚ He cometh not‚" she said; She said "I am aweary‚ aweary‚ I would that I were dead!" (Tennyson) These lines not only show how the lady feels about herself but her beloved man who she says will never return. These lines really help make a stance for gothic ligature because by reading these lines over and over again‚ every verse after a couple
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Brink of eternity Eternity has three aspects. It has the fear of the unknown when people feel they are not prepared to enter the next world. It has the hope of the unknown if people cannot bear the tribulations of life anymore. Lastly‚ it has the release of the unknown when people are well prepared to meet their physical death and go to the next world. Eternity is just a prayer away. In desperate hope the narrator went and searched for the spiritual door of eternity in all the corners of his room
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the average life. However‚ is there a difference? If so‚ who defines heroism? Where Tennyson’s “Ulysses” conveys the so-called heroic life‚ MacLaine’s “Elpinor’s Soliloquy” challenges it with a story about a considerable average man. MacLaine and Tennyson use language and imagery to reveal the difference‚ or non-difference‚ between average life and heroic life. Tennyson’s “Ulysses” is the story of an aging hero who‚ at the peak of his lifetime‚ realizes that a life lacking adventure is a life
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"Crossing the Bar" by Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson is a poem that expresses a sailor’s death. The poem starts with the sailor getting to know that he is going to die very soon by hearing a call from the symbols "sunset and evening star" and "twilight and evening bell" both which represent the onset of the night. The sailor‚ in the entire poem is actually asking his family and friends not to be heartbroken or to cry when he dies. The phrase "moaning of the bar" refers to the sad sound made by the wind and
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can be very powerful in many ways in the sense of persuasion. For example‚ ’the charge of the light brigade’ by Alfred Tennyson was written very shortly after the first world war had ended‚ and whilst the great loss of soldiers was fresh in peoples mind‚ he wrote it in a way in which was sensitive but also still got the point across to the reader. Throughout the poem Tennyson repeats that there was 600 men going to fight‚ however towards the end he lets the reader down gently by saying that there
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Compare the presentation of despondent isolation in Tennyson’s ‘Mariana’ and ‘The Lady of Shalott’. Tennyson presented complete and utter hopeless isolation in both Mariana and The Lady of Shalott in very many ways‚ a few being; their longing for a man‚ their prolonged sadness or the chance of change‚ whether it be tragic or unattainable. Continuing‚ the loss of hope is a key theme in these poems‚ but the curse set on the women being the main cause of this. ‘Without hope of change’ line
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