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Alfred Lord

Tennyson
" U LY S S E S "
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Short biography

"In Memoriam" by Alfred Lord Tennyson

What is the main idea of poem "Ulysses"?

Interesting facts
Alferd Lord Tennyson

• Born: 6 August, 1809 

• Died: 6 October, 1892 (aged 83) 

• English poet

• 1st Baron Tennyson

• Notable Works: "The King's Idylls"  

           ,"In Memoriam"
Arthur Henry Hallam
Ulysses

• Written: 1833 

• Author: Alfred Tennyson

• Style of the poem: dramatic


monologue
"Ulysses" is based on on Homer's
Odyssey and Dante's Inferno
Alfred Lord
Tennyson has in his twenties when he wrote Ulysses

Interesting facts This poem is also in memory of his friend Arthur Hallon

Ulysses refers several times to the Trojan War


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Patrycja Złomańczuk

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