... in the two-volume "Poems", Tennyson creates his idea of an old Ulysses by using the ancient hero of Homer's Odyssey, and the medieval hero of Dante's Inferno. Translated from Greek ("Odysseus") to Roman, Ulysses represents the aging hero feeling that there is no point in staying home "by this still hearth" with his ... exhibits, many readers find that the arrogance Ulysses displays towards his subjects, his wife and son damage the inspiration intended. His identity is discovered with each word, but along the way, readers see him in different lights. Some see him as a grand, noble man tha...

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• Grade Level: High School

... the women come and go 36 Talking of Michelangelo. 37 And indeed there will be time 38 To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" 39 Time to turn back and descend the stair, 40 With a bald spot in the middle of my hair -- 41 (They will say: 'How his hair ... Prufrock; probably the reason that this poem still remains, arguably, Eliot's most famous. The beginning of the poem is pre-empted by an excerpt from Dante's Inferno which Eliot uses to create the poem's serious tone, but also to begin his exploration of Prufrock's self-consciousness. By inserting this quote, a ... oyster-shells"(4-5)...

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... winged seeds, where they lie cold and low/ Each like a corpse within its grave, until/ Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow" (7-9). In the first line, Shelley use the phrase "winged seeds" which presents images of flying and freedom. The only problem is that they lay "cold and low" or unnourished ... climax when he asks with hope: "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? (70).This sentence could be rewritten substituting the word death, for the word "Winter," and the word rebirth, could take the place of "spring." Shelley, like all of the Romantic poets, constantly tries to achi...

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• Grade Level: High School