This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the scepter and the isle
Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfill
This labor, by slow prudence to make mild
A rugged people, and through soft degrees
Subdue them to the useful and the good.
The above lines taken from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s
Ulysses displays Ulysses making his speech in Ithaca.
This poem exemplifies a type of a poem in which the
voice of a historical or fictional character speaks,
unmediated by any narrator, to an imaginary silent
audience.

Which refers to the type of poetry exemplified and
defined above?