Ulysses AS revision

Use of blank verse = Iambic Pentameter

Conversational Tone - everyday speech

- regular rhythm interrupted

• Spondees('I mine') - forcefullness
• trochees - uncertainty

Dramatic Monologue

Single Speaker

• Ulysses is the speaker of the poem that bears his name; he's a semi-retired soldier who's also a king

70 lines longe, 4 paragraph like sections

- each compromise a distinct thematic unit of the poem

• first 5 lines - rejection of barren life
• end of first verse - fond recall of heroic past

etc

use of enjambment - pushing forward "beyond the utmost bound of human thought"

Short sentences

• He works his work, I mine.

creates abrupt/ blunt tone

breaking in poem crearted -caesurae -

• The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs : the deep/moans

reflective/meditative mood - pace slow - age

Contrasting, opposites in parallel phrases

• rust unburnishd/shine in use
• I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly
• little remains.... something more

monosyllable

• hoard and sleep and feed and know not me

completely iambic

• To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield