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A 4 page paper which examines the personalities
and world views of the protagonists in Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Ulysses” and T.S.
Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Page Count:
4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAtennul.rtf
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Sometimes they are merely a voice for the picture we are given and other times they are active participants in the poem. And, still yet, sometime we think they are
merely a voice or a lens for the reader and then find out they are the active participant in the poem. The following paper examines the protagonists, who may be
the speakers or narrators, in Alfred Lord Tennysons "Ulysses" and T.S. Eliots "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." The paper discusses the protagonists world views and personalities.
Tennyson In the first stanza of this poem we quickly begin to see that the poem is about the narrator, who constantly refers to themselves by saying "me." There is
a sense that this individual must tell others the great deeds he has done, perhaps because no one remembers them or no one else has recorded or repeated the great
deeds. This would, perhaps first and foremost, give us the impression that this particular protagonist was bitter that he many deeds went unnoticed, or perhaps was a man who held
a grudge and who thought more highly of himself than others. It may well also be that he did not actually perform the many dangerous tasks he mentions, but rather
thinks himself a hero. When we see the following, that illustrates the position of the narrator in this poem, we begin to see how the man in the poem
did do great things, for he is Ulysses, but we also note a sense of regret perhaps on the part of Tennyson, who is part of the speakers personality: "In
Alfred Tennysons "Ulysses," ostensibly a dramatic monologue in which Ulysses addresses his crew before setting out on a last voyage, a facet of Tennysons own outlook is being expressed through
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