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A 7 page paper which examines how nature inspires contemplation, as each interior monologue ponders memories of the past, the meaning of life and man’s place in it, and death or the possibility of a hereafter. No additional sources are used.
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wonders of nature, had long been a popular setting for it offered the perfect complement to the feelings and emotions which characterize the Romantic genre. Esteemed poets Alfred, Lord
Tennyson and William Wordsworth took the external pastoral poetry of old, and elevated it to a higher level by incorporating a new style known as dramatic internal monologue. These
monologues enabled the poets to utilize nature as an introspective literary device that allowed the respective narrators to probe their innermost thoughts and feelings. Returning to nature and reveling
in its beauty, simplicity, and harmony often served as creative inspiration for Tennyson and Wordsworth, and these moments of contemplation are reflected in the narrators of their poems, "Ulysses" and
"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey." In each poem, the narrator is communicating not to another person or reader, but to himself. In "Ulysses," the narrator
is the ancient Greek hero popularized by Homer in his epic, "The Odyssey." He has returned home to Ithaka after a lengthy sea voyage, away from his wife and
son, Telemachus. In the poem, Ulysses is at the twilight of his life, and he finds himself in a reflective mood. While he is pleased to be reunited
with his family, he finds himself reminiscing about his adventurous past, and nature encourages his ruminations: "It little profits that an idle king, / By this still hearth, among these
barren crags, / Matchd with an aged wife, I mete and dole / Unequal laws unto a savage race, / That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me"
(1108-1109). His contemplation continues, and Ulysses considers not only his memories of the past, but his place in the present. Again, nature is artfully employed by Tennyson which
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