Poems on Mythical Placks and Miscellanious Used of Myths by Alfred Tennyson

In this paper we take up the set of poems poem after mythical places, viz.. "Ilion. Ilion. " a fragment (not published in his life time), written during the poet's Cambridge days and hence belonging to his early youth and "Parnassus." a poem written when the poet was an old man Though the titles of these poems are drawn from mythological places their themes are related to these places only to the extent to which they are relevant to Tennyson's aspiration as a poet. While the poems on personages are the repositories of his tensions as a man and a poet, with claims and counterclaims of pure art and social responsibility on him. these two poems are about this dream of being a great poet and the ultimate blighting of that dream.