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" The Myth in the poet’s soul: between evocation and inage and in Alfred Tenyson’s poetry".Alferd tennyson is considered the greatest among the victorian poets with R.Brouning althoug involved with Romanticsnsibility, he felt the moral and intellectual concern of the vicotrians writer, he was greatly influenced by the suggestions of nights and the powerful language /used by dante) in the memorable mondogue of Ulysses (included in "Poems in Two volumes" and traslated into italian By G.Pascoli) is a dramatic monologue is which Ulysses dissatisfied with his own role and his present life in Ithaca decodes to embark on a new adventure. It was inspired by homer and above all, by the 26th canto of Dante’s Inferno. The Ulysse’s nyght simbolies the everlasting desire of men to kanow the XXX to go be XXX the limits that human nature has placed around them . Now Ulysses is on ald man, who come back in Ithaca after a long travel lasted twenty-years (trough the sea) he knew different places (and he passed also between Scilla and Cariddi): He has found a different world in which he can’t "dole unequals laws unto a savage race, that hoard, and sleep and feed and know not he", so he begin to remember his past in which he enjoyed and at the same time he suffered greatly and he says: "For always roaming with a hungry heart much have seen known.cities of men and manners, climates, councils, governments" (vv.12-14) " I am a paset of all i have met Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough. Gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades. Forever and forever when i move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end". (vv. 18-23) He feel that what he has met is inprinted on his memory and his life has been noulded bt his experiences: "And this gray spirit yearning in desire to follow knowledge like a sinking star.Beyond the utmost bound of human though". (vv.30-32) He feel that he’s going to die and he want to leave the sceptre and the ide to his son Telemachus who his XXX to make mild a rugged people and subdue them to the useful and the good. Ulysses says that old age has yet his homour and before the death some wark of noble note may be done, so he decides "to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of an the western star until he die": And see the great Achilles whon we knew. Though much is taken much abides, and though we are not now that strenght which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are - One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield". The image of death cannot be absent from old Ulysses thoughts. He in fact mentions it twice in the poem with two contrasting reference, (vv.27). From the eternal silence (vv.63) he mention the Happy Isles (beyond Gibilterra Straits) where it XXX told that heroes lived after their death.
Tennyson and Browning Tennyson’s name is usually compled with that of Browning and though they lived in the same age they were quite different from each other. Tennyson in a way represented the prolongation of Romanticism into the Viscotrian Age, thanks to his keener sensibility and to the sweet greceful musicality of his lirics, Browning’s poetry was more intellectual. Tennyson is more subjective in his poetry and aften identified himself with his characters (a.g. Ulysses) Browning wrote in a more abjective and detached way.
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