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refuses, she is dominated by her emotions in the same way Paris is dominated by his own. Instead, her actions are closer to those of
Aphrodite, the goddess that Oenone competes against for Paris's affection. The jealousy and possessiveness of Oenone is similar to Tennyson's feelings at the time for Hallam's company, as Tennyson believed that he would be separated from his friend by a woman.
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committed; she, like him, is a victimiser to herself. Oenone is similar to other females in
Tennyson's poems. In particular, she is a combination of the character Mariana, a quiet woman who suffers like a prisoner as she waits for her lover to return, and Fatima, who loses her mind and submits to her intense passions while losing herself in the material world.
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Oenone's song is similar to the events described in the poem. The city of Troy was created in song and ends with its eminent destruction. In a similar manner, Oenone's song comes from the destruction left by Paris. She also shifts from the
Mariana-like prisoner type of character to the Fatima-like
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by the manner in which an individual point of view is incrementally revealed within the poems. The character Oenone laments her fate and is portrayed as a victim to outside circumstances. However, her actions in letting her emotions control her is similar to the actions that Paris, her betrayer,
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The refrain, "Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die", reveals Oenone's imprisonment to both the situation she finds herself in and to her emotions. When Paris is offered "self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control" by Pallas, Oenone cries out for him to accept the gifts above the others. When he
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Oenone is deeply in love with Paris, and she admits that when he is speaking she is unable to act. This is especially true when he reveals to her the
Hesperian apple and when he becomes the judge of which goddess is allowed to have the apple as a gift:
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article of April 1833. The review was based on a close reading of the various poems followed by attacks on the content. Of the various poems attacked, "Oenone" was the truest hit, as Croker focused on how the poem was filled with unclear descriptions.
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self-destructive character as the poem progresses. Changes between the 1832 and 1842 edition of the poems reflect changes in
Tennyson's role as the poet creating a song and, thus, his similarity to Oenone as a character.
73:. During summer 1829, the two travelled to Spain to help a group of Spanish rebels in northern Spain. While there, Tennyson was able to experience the Pyrenees mountains, which influenced a few of his poems, including "Oenone", "
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Aphrodite, the love goddess, follows Pallas and offers a gift that competes against Oenone's role as Paris's wife. This causes Oenone to resort to emotionally appealing Paris:
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The poem begins with a lament by Oenone. Although she describes her feelings, there is no one to hear her because her lover, Paris, is off to be with Helen:
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The poem was included in
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is the simplest of
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in 1829. The poem describes the Greek mythological character
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Of movement, and the charm of married brows." (lines 64–75)
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All earth and air seem only burning fire." (lines 258–266)
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and her witnessing incidents in the life of her lover,
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Tennyson's 1832 collection of poems was savaged by
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264:Fresh as the foam, new-bathed in Paphian wells,
223:These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
179:Behold this fruit, whose gleaming rind ingrav'n
107:Her cheek had lost the rose, and round her neck
220:"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,
167:And listen'd, the full-flowing river of speech
158:He smiled, and opening out his milk-white palm
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341:Down into Troy, and ere the stars come forth
321:Were wound about thee, and my hot lips prest
291:The fairest and most loving wife in Greece."
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229:Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law,
146:My eyes are full of tears, my heart of love,
137:Rests like a shadow, and the winds are dead.
113:She, leaning on a fragment twined with vine,
110:Floated her hair or seem'd to float in rest.
270:From her warm brows and bosom her deep hair
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288:Half-whisper'd in his ear, "I promise thee
247:And Paris ponder'd, and I cried, "O Paris,
211:The while, above, her full and earnest eye
164:That smelt ambrosially, and while I look'd
149:My heart is breaking, and my eyes are dim,
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327:Of fruitful kisses, thick as Autumn rains
318:Ah me, my mountain shepherd, that my arms
303:My love hath told me so a thousand times.
282:She with a subtle smile in her mild eyes,
238:Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.'
217:Kept watch, waiting decision, made reply.
214:Over her snow-cold breast and angry cheek
205:O'erthwarted with the brazen-headed spear
202:Somewhat apart, her clear and bared limbs
188:The knolls of Ida, loveliest in all grace
161:Disclosed a fruit of pure Hesperian gold,
134:The lizard, with his shadow on the stone,
128:For now the noonday quiet holds the hill:
104:Of Paris, once her playmate on the hills.
49:, as he is involved in the events of the
356:That, wheresoe'er I am by night and day,
300:Fairest—why fairest wife? am I not fair?
273:Ambrosial, golden round her lucid throat
250:Give it to Pallas!' but he heard me not,
140:The purple flower droops: the golden bee
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309:When I past by, a wild and wanton pard,
306:Methinks I must be fair, for yesterday,
285:The herald of her triumph, drawing nigh
267:With rosy slender fingers backward drew
232:Acting the law we live by without fear;
131:The grasshopper is silent in the grass:
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347:A fire dances before her, and a sound
185:As lovelier than whatever Oread haunt
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176:Beautiful-brow'd Œnone, my own soul,
22:c. 1901 illustration to the poem by
589:Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
226:Yet not for power (power of herself
122:"O mother Ida, many-fountain'd Ida,
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702:Break, Break, Break
626:The Lady of Shalott
538:The Manyfacèd Glass
449:Hugh 1988 pp. 80–81
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1023:Frederick Tennyson
758:In Memoriam A.H.H.
751:Idylls of the King
612:The Deserted House
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398:John Wilson Croker
338:I will rise and go
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853:Late poetry
808:Sir Galahad
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1051:1829 poems
1045:Categories
1007:(grandson)
1001:(grandson)
936:The Window
744:Lady Clare
619:The Kraken
531:References
61:Background
51:Trojan War
1025:(brother)
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868:The Eagle
737:St. Agnes
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71:Cambridge
69:while at
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910:Tithonus
668:Claribel
552:Tennyson
377:rhetoric
55:Pyrenees
947:Related
843:Ulysses
640:Mariana
375:use of
989:(wife)
980:People
930:(play)
789:(1842)
730:Godiva
694:Poetry
647:Oenone
607:(1830)
373:ironic
369:Oenone
364:Themes
79:Oenone
43:Oenone
33:" or "
31:Oenone
995:(son)
786:Poems
411:Notes
400:in a
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47:Paris
35:Œnone
896:Maud
96:Poem
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