... start when Ariel described the prisoners as, "brimful of sorrow and dismay", whose " tears run down his beard like winters drop". Shakespeare's characterisation in Ariels figurative language reminds Prospero of his humanity in which Prospero concludes that there is "the rarer action in virtue than in vengeance". This dichotomy of virtue and vengeance highlights extent ... Ulysses being driven to "drink life to the lees", Tennyson reveals the innate hunger of Ulysses to travel and seek fulfilment from the emptiness of Ithaca, evident through emotive language, and similie as he "[yearns] ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate