Friday, 25 April 2014

In Tennyson's poem "Ulysses," is Ulysses' audience consistent throughout?

There is
some dispute about the answer to this question. Some scholars argue that, in the first part of
Tennyson's " ," the king is speaking to himself, while in the second part he is
addressing an audience, such as his men. Others might assert that the king of Ithaca is
addressing some kind of audience throughout the poem. While it's difficult to say for sure which
stance is completely correct, I think that the second argument, that Ulysses is consistently
addressing the same...

href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses

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