Scholars argue about Tennyson’s attitude towards Ulysses and cannot identify whether the author treated the main character with some irony or admired his strength and power to overcome hardships and challenges of life.Ī narrator can produce irony within oral speech or in a written text as well as tone. When a narrator uses soothing tone, he/she is sure to express positive attitude towards the character. In other words, these lines presuppose a specific tone that would encourage the warriors and assure them of victory. Push off, and sitting well in order smite/ the sounding furrows…” (57-59). The example of tone usage can be found in the same lines when Ulysses calls his friends upon to join him in another adventure, “Tis not too late to seek a newer world. This study also contains explanation of features typical of tone in oral speech such as voice used by the reader or performer, its melody, intonation, and other methods to use human voice tone in writing can be characterised with the help of effective evaluation of the whole work, the attitude of a narrator, interrelations between characters, and an overall concept of the poem. As suggested by Furniss and Bath, tone in speech and tone in writing have a number of distinctive features and can be easily differentiated (241-242). If you can read the poem using a specific tone, this means that an author has done a great job while creating characters, a narrator, and appropriate setting for the story. The poem “Ulysses” and its tone are integral parts of a single piece of literature. Contemporary scientists and researchers try to analyse the poem in terms of direct and hidden meanings created with the help of literary means such as ambiguity, tone, undecidability, and irony. In other words, ambiguity is one of the most prominent features of the poem that makes this work interesting for people in different periods of time. The poem “Ulysses” written by Lord Alfred Tennyson can be considered one of the most complicated works of literature to read and comprehend because it contains many expressions that can be understood in different ways resulting in misconception. Nevertheless, some authors manage to communicate the main idea of their work using only literary means such as tone, irony, ambiguity, and undecidability as in the lines that interpret Ulysses’ desire to acquire knowledge: “And this gray spirit yearning in desire/ To follow knowledge like a sinking star,/ Beyond the utmost bound of human thought” (30-32).
Thus, every author tries to convey the meaning through descriptions, narration, explanations, monologues, and comments given to certain paragraphs to facilitate a reader’s understanding of the main idea. For instance, it is easier to imagine how Ulysses calls his comrades “Come, my friends…” (Tennyson 56) to join him in the new adventure than to imagine how he would call them if this was an ordinary description of how the ruler propagates some news to his people. No matter what an actor does, the image will never become alive on the stage if it is lifeless on the paper. Though some authors tend to use simple literary language, they can fail to make their characters as vivid as they are supposed to be or as they are presented by Tennyson. Variety of meanings interpreted through the tone of the poem as well as though its irony, ambiguity, and undecidability make the author a genius of poetic style.
In this respect, written language has its benefits as well as the oral speech when intonation and melody enable the performer to introduce the position with no ambiguity.
However, different literary means are used exactly to make the text more appropriate for reading silently or performing on the stage, or in the form of video cameras. Some people think that the text can be read in the same manner as intended by the author no matter what techniques he/she uses to communicate the main idea.
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