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Tennyson and the Victorian Dramatic Monologue — Homework
Read "Ulysses" (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) at least twice before answering.
- 1.Define dramatic monologue in one sentence.
- 2.Explain what Ulysses finds unsatisfying about his peaceful life now that he has returned home.
- 3.Quote the poem's closing line.
- 4.In five or more sentences, compare the sensibility of this poem to Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," identifying at least one specific shift between Romantic and Victorian attitudes.
- 5.In three or more sentences, argue whether the poem presents Ulysses's restlessness as admirable, as a warning, or as genuinely both.
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