Discuss
on 'Ulysses' as a Dramatic Monologue
A dramatic monologue is a lyric poem in
which a single imaginary speaker or a historical personage expresses his
thoughts and feelings to an imaginary silent audience. The distinguished
features of dramatic are as follows.
In this kind of poem a single person,
who is apparently not the poet, utters the entire poem in a specific situation
at a critical moment.
This person addresses and interacts
with one or more other people, but we know of the presence of the audience and
its reaction from the clues in the utterance of the speaker.
A dramatic monologue concentrates on
the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.
Robert Browning is well known for his
dramatic monologues. His ‘My Last Duchess,” Andrea del Sarto,” ‘Fra Lippo
Lippi’, Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses’ and ‘Tittonus,” T.S Eliot’s ‘The Love song of J.
Alfred Prufrock’ are some of the best known dramatic monologues. Tennyson like
another Victorian genius Robert Browing is good at composing dramatic
monologues. His well known poem Ulysses is an excellent example of dramatic
monologue in which he adopts a classical hero Ulysses or Odysseus as the main
character for his work. Here he tries to focus on the adventurous as well as
knowledge seeking spirit of Ulysses. But the philosophy of life given through
the mouth of Ulysses is actually Tennyson’s own philosophy...................
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