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12th July 2004 Philip Murphy By Comparing Ulysses and Not My Best Side Explore the Poets use of the Dramatic Monologue A dramatic monologue is a poem in which a single speaker who is not the poet utters the entire poem at a critical moment. The speaker may have a listener within the poem, but we too are his/her listener, and we learn about the speaker's character from what the speaker says. In fact, the speaker may unintentionally reveal certain aspects of his/her character. The reader often perceives a gap between what that speaker says and what he/she actually reveals, which is subject to interpretation. Ulysses, by Alfred Tennyson, is a dramatic representation of a man who has lost his faith in the gods and in the necessity of preserving order in his kingdom and his own life. The whole monologue takes place on Ulysses' death bed. It is a kind of dream,...

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