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ALFRED TENNYSON - Coggle Diagram
ALFRED TENNYSON
LIFE
1809-1892
Poet's laureate in 1850
he was made a PEER
"Apostles" as young group for poetry
POETRY
PUBLICATIONS
2 volumes of "Poems" in 1842
"Idylls of a king"
STYLE
musical grace
eclecticism =
combination of different elements
Romanticism + classicism
PAST
dreams and imagination
Ulysses had restless (=irrequieto) spirit
dangerous desire for forbidden experience
PESSIMISM
dream as escape to a dead end
no epic actions, but cruel realism
elegiac tone
meaningless life
languid melody and sensuality
THEMES: regret (=rimpianto) and loss
ULYSSES
Dramatic monologue
protagonist: Ulysses
contrast between the stability of Ithaca and his nomadic peregrination
Desire to sail to the unknown
Wants to stay with mariners
towards adventures
=passionate idea for life
in contrast with Victorian respectability