POETIC FORMS AND GENRES Assignment Example | Topics and Well Written Essays - 1500 words

POETIC FORMS AND GENRES - Assignment Examplend for some historians and literature critics it has also a genuinely strong negative connotation related to the period immediately after the World War I and the disappointment in the moral and ideological set that have been the basis of the Victorian Age during the rule of Queen Victoria. Historical events during the Victorian Age such as the adoption of the Reform Bill (1832), Chartism (1836-1848) and umpteen others speak for the period itself and we should not waste time on history anyway. Literature in this period is the object of our interest. Needless to say, literature has been strongly influenced by all of those events and the bourgeois lifestyle and society in general. Among all literature genres poetry has been regarded the highest if we are to judge according to the respect it has enjoyed.Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) is considered national treasure for the British. His best(p) works include Poems by Two Brothers (1827), Poems Chiefly Lyrical (1830), Poems (1832), Poems (1842), In Memoriam (1850), Maud (1855), Idylls of the King (1859), Enoch Arden, and Other Poems (1864), Works (so-called Imperial Edition 1872), several plays (Queen bloody shame, Harold The Falcon and others), etc.Ulysses (1842) is one of his best poems. It is a pure monologue in blank verse, more compact in its composition than the rest of his poems, apply strong, core and sober language, whose richness is beyond any critic. To clarify the meaning of monologue as a poetic form we have to give its translation and say that it is a speech in verse or prose uttered by one speaker as a part of a bigger work or as an independent work in itself, and blank verse means unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter often used in tenacious poems and dramatic verse, with a very flexible form and well adaptable to monologues like Ulysses (Myers, Jack, & Simms, Michael, The Longman Dictionary of Poetic Terms, 1989, p.33).