Trace the romantic elements in Tennyson's poetry.

Tennyson uses two elements in his poetry that could be
described as romantic.

First, romance literature goes back
further than the romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge, etc.  It goes
back to the Middle Ages or medieval period.  Tennyson uses characters going back to
romance literature from that period.  In "The Lady of Shalott," he writes of Camelot and
Sir Lancelot.  These are characters from the romance tales of the Middle Ages.  He
hearkens back to the past.

Second, he uses classical
allusions, and writes of classical characters.  In "Ulysses," he imagines Ulysses twenty
years after Homer's Odyssey ends, bored and cranky and tired of
being a stationary ruler.  Ulysses wants to get back to the sea and seek more
adventure.

Of course, Tennyson puts his Victorian spin on
these romantic subjects.  Both the Lady of Shalott and Ulysses are thinly disguised
artists.  Both characters and their poems deal with the relationship between artists and
their art and their reality.