I have chosen to discuss the poem called "Ulysses- by the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson where I will be discussing the ways in which the poem "Ulysses- addresses preoccupations of the Victorian period. ... The sense of frustration rising in the hearts of the revolution workers is revealed to us through Ulysses, as we identify that Ulysses is feeling a sense of lassitude which gives rise to the ideas of oppressive tiredness versus action. ... Instead his honourable beliefs become selfish and centred, and it appears that Ulysses lacks any attachment to his aged wife'. ... Even though Tennyson...

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During the years following the presidential reconstruction of the Southern states (1865-1867), a demanding Northern population called for harsher repercussions to the civil war's losing side. The standards that were Laissez-faire set, or stuck down rather, by President Andrew Johnson, were unsatisfa...

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After the civil war ended the differences between ex-confederates and Republicans were at an unstable high. While President Lincoln was in office during the war, he appointed Andrew Johnson to military governor of Tennessee because he was the only senator from a Confederate state who remained loyal...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the early 1900s, particularly in the 1920s, African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. During the mass migration of African Americans from the rural agricultural South to the urban industrial North (1914-18), many...

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He says, Moreover, just as an epic poet, if he is scrupulous and disinclined to break the rules, undertakes to extol not the whole life of the hero whom he proposes to celebrate in his verse, but usually one event of his life (the exploit of Achilles at Troy, let us say, or the return of Ulysses, or the arrival of Aeneas in Italy) and passes over the rest (685) This view of the classical epic may be justified, but its authority hardly applies to the task or "event" that "Paradise Lost" undertakes to explain. ...

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The Civil War left America broken and disunited, and the following Reconstruction period between 1865 and 1877, was meant to put America back together socially and economically, and accomplish the unity pursued by the central governing body. Reconstruction was a partial success in restoring the Amer...

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Susan Brownmiller is an author and a strongly opinionated feminist. She is the founder of Women Against Pornography and author of the book Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (1975) and several other books and essays. In Let's Put Pornography Back in the Closet, Susan is contending the extent of r...

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Based on Homer's 'Odyssey,' the movie, O Brother Where Art Thou, deals with the picaresque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s, Mississippi. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate