{"id":341,"date":"2022-07-12T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iterudio.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2022-07-12T13:00:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T17:00:54","slug":"tennyson-ulysses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Tennyson &#8211; Ulysses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ulysses - Alfred Lord Tennyson\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TjCc43ideVM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><br \/>I got around to recording a version of Tennyson&#8217;s &#8220;Ulysses&#8221; &#8230;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>also learned how to add subtitles with Davinci Resolve &#8211; which is not complicated but is time consuming. I&#8217;m sure there is a better way to create the subtitle file for youtube upload &#8211; e.g. there is &#8220;markup&#8221; in the subtitles which I didn&#8217;t intend.<br \/><br \/>The picture is where Tennyson lived from 1853 until his death in 1892. officially it is &#8220;Farringford House, in the village of Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight&#8221; &#8212; the house is now a &#8220;luxury hotel&#8221; &#8211; which means it isn&#8217;t really open as a &#8220;tourist destination&#8221; but if you have the resources you might be able to stay there &#8230;<br \/><br \/>Tennyson wrote &#8220;Ulysses&#8221; in his early 20&#8217;s after the death of a close friend. The &#8220;narrator&#8221; of the poem is supposed to be &#8220;old&#8221; Ulysses after his return to Ithaca &#8211; maybe 50-ish &#8211; <br \/><br \/>ANYWAY &#8211; the &#8220;Iliad&#8221; is about the end of the Trojan war &#8211; with the story centering around Achilles (who gets named dropped near the end of Tennyson&#8217;s poem). <\/p>\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;Odyssey&#8221; is a &#8220;sequel&#8221; to the &#8220;Iliad&#8221; telling the story of Odysseus&#8217; (original Greek)\/Ulysses (Latin\/English translation) journey home from Troy &#8211; which ends up taking 10 years (after the 10 year siege of Troy)<br \/><br \/>classical &#8220;spoiler alert&#8221; &#8212; Achilles death and Odysseus coming up with the &#8220;Trojan horse&#8221; idea allowing the Greeks inside the wall of Troy &#8212; happen &#8220;off screen&#8221; between where the Iliad ends and the Odyssey begins<br \/><br \/>Odysseus returns home alone (he was King of Ithaca when he left to fight against Troy) &#8211; and promptly kills all of the &#8220;high ranking suitors&#8221; that were trying to coerce his wife (Penelope) into marriage (you know, because Odysseus must have died &#8211; since everyone else returned from Troy 10 years ago).<br \/><br \/>some versions of Homer&#8217;s &#8220;Odyssey&#8221; have Ulysses taking care of business and then the &#8220;gods&#8221; have to intervene to establish peace &#8211; some modern scholars argue for various &#8220;alternate endings&#8221; e.g. it may have ended with the reunion of Odysseus and Penelope &#8212; <br \/><br \/>Tennyson&#8217;s Ulysses picks up the story a couple years (&#8220;three suns&#8221; might be &#8220;three years&#8221;?) after the Odyssey. With his family taken care of and his son firmly established as the next ruler, Ulysses wants to go on one last adventure.<br \/><br \/>Now, if you want to nit-pick &#8211; the &#8220;mariners&#8221; mentions were obviously NOT under Ulysses command on the return from Troy (remember, he loses everything &#8211; ship, crew, clothes &#8211; EVERYTHING &#8211; on the way home). However, that doesn&#8217;t mean that they hadn&#8217;t all fought together during the (10 year) Trojan war &#8230;<br \/><br \/>I&#8217;ll point out (again) that Tennyson was in his early 20&#8217;s when he wrote Ulysses. Tennyson wouldn&#8217;t meet Emily Sellwood until his mid 20&#8217;s (whom he would be married to until his death 42 years later) &#8211; so maybe faithful Penelope should get a better treatment than just a passing reference as an &#8220;aged wife&#8221; &#8211; but that is just me nit-picking \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>also learned how to add subtitles with Davinci Resolve &#8211; which is not complicated but is time consuming. I&#8217;m sure there is a better way to create the subtitle file for youtube upload &#8211; e.g. there is &#8220;markup&#8221; in the subtitles which I didn&#8217;t intend. 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