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    Tennyson's poem Ulysses uses blank verse with run-on lines to describe the titular character's desire to continue seeking knowledge and adventure. The poem employs rhetorical devices like antithesis and memorable phrases. Imagery in the poem includes metaphors comparing experience to an arch and inactivity to rust. The poem also contains ambiguous meanings and double meanings, as Ulysses' voyage could symbolize Tennyson's mourning of his lost friend.

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    Tennyson's poem Ulysses uses blank verse with run-on lines to describe the titular character's desire to continue seeking knowledge and adventure. The poem employs rhetorical devices like antithesis and memorable phrases. Imagery in the poem includes metaphors comparing experience to an arch and inactivity to rust. The poem also contains ambiguous meanings and double meanings, as Ulysses' voyage could symbolize Tennyson's mourning of his lost friend.

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    Tennyson's poem Ulysses uses blank verse with run-on lines to describe the titular character's desire to continue seeking knowledge and adventure. The poem employs rhetorical devices like antithesis and memorable phrases. Imagery in the poem includes metaphors comparing experience to an arch and inactivity to rust. The poem also contains ambiguous meanings and double meanings, as Ulysses' voyage could symbolize Tennyson's mourning of his lost friend.

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    Ulysses - Tennyson

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    Tennyson's poem Ulysses uses blank verse with run-on lines to describe the titular character's desire to continue seeking knowledge and adventure. The poem employs rhetorical devices like antithesis and memorable phrases. Imagery in the poem includes metaphors comparing experience to an arch and inactivity to rust. The poem also contains ambiguous meanings and double meanings, as Ulysses' voyage could symbolize Tennyson's mourning of his lost friend.

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    The poem analyzes the form, rhetoric, imagery, and themes of Tennyson's poem Ulysses.

    The poem is written in iambic pentameter blank verse.

    The poem uses rhetorical devices like antithesis and recalls the rhetoric of Satan in Paradise Lost.

    ULYSSES - TENNYSON

    The poet's method


    The form of the poem
     The poem is written in the iambic
    pentameter line familiar from the
    plays of Shakespeare.
     The lines are not rhymed at the
    end, and we call this blank verse.
     Tennyson is the most fluent of
    writers and he is comfortable with
    end-stopped and run-on lines.
    Rhetoric
     The poem uses several tricks of
    rhetoric - to make speaking
    memorable and persuasive. We
    find antithesis (contrasting
    phrases) in:
     "I cannot rest from travel: I will
    drink/Life to the lees" or in
     "to rust unburnished, not to shine
    in use".
    Rhetoric
     "...that which we are, we are."
     Ulysses' manner of speaking here
    often recalls the rhetoric of Satan
    in Milton's Paradise Lost.
    Imagery
     Metaphor and simile abound in the
    poem:
     experience is an arch, inactivity is
    like rusting
     action is like burnishing (polishing;
    a very apt image as it suggests the
    warriors' armour that is burnished
    for use, or left to rust)
    Imagery
     The poem is also decorated with lines
    one can take out of their context, and
    use almost as proverbs:
     "I am a part of all that I have met..."
     "...all experience is an arch..."
     "How dull it is to pause, to make an
    end..."
     Death closes all..."
     "'Tis not too late to seek a newer
    world..."
    Imagery
     Ulysses' spirit is "gray" and yearns with
    desire to "follow knowledge like a
    sinking star/Beyond the utmost bound
    of human thought"
     a very complex series of images - try to
    visualise them, and you will realise this.
     How many more images can you find,
    what do they mean, and how do they
    work?
    Ambiguity and double
    meanings
     Ulysses would not know of the open
    ocean beyond the great sea (which we
    call the Mediterranean) - nor that there
    is land to the west.
     And no Greek ship, had it passed into
    the Atlantic, could safely have reached
    America.
     But Tennyson (like his readers), of
    course, does know there is land here,
    and that the voyage is possible, if
    Ambiguity and double
    meanings
     Ulysses wonders if he may find
    again the great hero, Achilles,
    whom he has not seen, since his
    death when Troy fell.
     Many readers think that Tennyson
    identifies "the great Achilles" with
    his own lost friend, Arthur Hallam
    Ulysses - Method
     Taken from
    http://www.shunsley.eril.net/armoore

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