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writing style?
wrote in pastoral, romantic style
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Idylls of the king?
- about king arthur legend
- about a gigantic book
- very idealistic interpretation
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The Lady of Shallott?
- poem has refrain
- she is an artist who weaves a tapestry, she cant look out the window so she looks at reflection in the mirror
- *isnt looking at life head on, looks at it 2nd hand
- She gets tired of living her life this way and tries to experiance life herself and break out of artist world
- *she cant cope with reality and should stay in her own world
- -when she leaves tower, she ends up dying
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what poem is a dramatic monologue?
ulysses by tennyson
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dramatic monologue?
gets personality of speaker
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Ulysses?
- talks about life as old man
- **wants to live life to the fullest, dont waste your life by sitting and doing nothing
- his body may be weak, but he still has the heart to push on
- ***positive attitude towards life
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Ulysses greek name?
odysseus
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example of elegy?
in memoriam
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In Memoriam?
- written for Arthur Henry W
- *poem is scenes of ups and downs of him trying to reconcile his life to his friends death
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pt. 27 in memoriam?
- doesnt envy bird because its in a cage, while he is free
- *he can think, while beast goes by instinct
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pt. 54 in memoriam?
trust that bad things happen for a reason and good will come out of it
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pt. 130 in memoriam?
- just because he's not there doesnt mean he loves him less
- **hes always with him
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which poem was important to tennysone?
Crossing the bar
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Crossing the bar?
go out to open sea : him dying and going up to heaven
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which poem is at the end of all of tennyson's anthologies?
crossing the bar
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