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    A Study Guide for Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Alfred Lord Tennyson'a Ulysses"
    A Study Guide for Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Alfred Lord Tennyson'a Ulysses"
    A Study Guide for Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Alfred Lord Tennyson'a Ulysses"
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    A Study Guide for Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Alfred Lord Tennyson'a Ulysses"

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    A Study Guide for Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Alfred Lord Tennyson'a Ulysses," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535817806
    A Study Guide for Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Alfred Lord Tennyson'a Ulysses"

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      Ulysses

      Alfred, Lord Tennyson

      1833

      Introduction

      Ulysses is based upon the Odyssey, written by the Greek poet Homer, who is known to have lived some time before 700 B.C. In that tale, Ulysses is gone from his home for thirty years: for ten years he is involved in fighting in the Trojan war, and the journey back from Troy to his homeland of Ithaca takes him through a series of adventures that last another twenty years. Another source that Tennyson is assumed to have used, that is similar in spirit to this poem, is the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. In Canto XXVI of that poem, Ulysses is unable to give up his life of adventure and returns to the sea, as he does in this poem.

      Ulysses was written in 1833 but not published until 1842, in Tennyson’s Poems. This collection marked the poet’s return to publication after a period referred to as his ten years’silence. Tennyson has identified the source of the poem’s emotion as rising from his feelings about the death of his college friend, Arthur Hallam, when Tennyson was twenty four. Although they knew each other for only five years, Hallam had a profound influence on Tennyson’s life and work. (One of the poet’s greatest accomplishments, the long poem In Memoriam, directly addresses his feelings about Hallam’s life and early death.) Tennyson related his friend’s death to this tale of a Ulysses’ desire to return to a life of adventure on the sea when he noted in his Memoir that the poem "gave my feelings about going forward, and braving the struggle of

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