The poem Ulysses written by poet Alfred Tennyson presented an image of a powerful hero with great aspirations.This paper focuses on discussing the themes of the poem based on textual analysis and Tennyson’s personal ...
Alfred Tennyson has long been acclaimed for his poetic art in English literature.His Idylls of the King has been recognized as a masterpiece in terms of Arthurian literature,narrative poetry and romantic writing.The p...
Compared with Dante's Inferno which has an original interpretation of Odysseus' s last voyage different from that in Homer's Odyssey, Tennyson's Ulysses seems closer to the Homeric epics. An intertextual study of thes...
Tennyson's poem "Boaidicea", published in 1864 but at least conceived in 1858, has never been very highly regarded. It is usually omitted from editions of the complete poetical works. There are two reasons for this...
Since ancient times,large numbers of poets throughout the world have elaborated their outlook on life and death through their works.Among them are Emily Dickinson and Alfred Tennyson,the outstanding poetess and poet i...
Generally, linguists categorize sound symbolism into two major types: direct sound symbolism and synesthetic sound symbolism. In English literature, Alfred Tennyson is a great Victorian poet adept in sensitive uses of...
As a "Poet Laureate",Alfred Lord Tennyson has been loved and respected by critics and readers.He is famous not only for his unsurpassed virtuosity,but also the melancholy feeling in his poetry.He excels at penning sho...
As a world-widely popular poem,Tennyson's Crossing the Bar attracts more and more people to cherish it.And this paper aims at translating it in a new way,and analyzing it in a fully scientific way.
Victorian age is the age full of fundamental changes in the society.At this turning of times,many poets spoke out their anxiety about this world,like Alfred Tennyson and Matthew Arnold,their poems express their anxiet...