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    Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson is a dramatic monologue told from the perspective of the Greek hero Ulysses. In the poem, Ulysses has returned home to Ithaca after his long journey following the Trojan War but finds himself restless and longing for more adventure. He decides to embark on one final voyage beyond the boundaries of the known world despite his old age. The poem explores Ulysses' relentless spirit and drive for knowledge and experience over a quiet retirement.

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    Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson is a dramatic monologue told from the perspective of the Greek hero Ulysses. In the poem, Ulysses has returned home to Ithaca after his long journey following the Trojan War but finds himself restless and longing for more adventure. He decides to embark on one final voyage beyond the boundaries of the known world despite his old age. The poem explores Ulysses' relentless spirit and drive for knowledge and experience over a quiet retirement.

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    Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson is a dramatic monologue told from the perspective of the Greek hero Ulysses. In the poem, Ulysses has returned home to Ithaca after his long journey following the Trojan War but finds himself restless and longing for more adventure. He decides to embark on one final voyage beyond the boundaries of the known world despite his old age. The poem explores Ulysses' relentless spirit and drive for knowledge and experience over a quiet retirement.

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    Ulysses

    by Alfred Tennyson
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    Greek name Latin name He is the:
    king of Ithaca,
    Odysseus or Ulysses
    husband of Penelope,
    is the hero of Homer's
    father of Telemachus,
    epic poem, “The Odyssey.”

    He took 10 years to Ulysses is a great adventurer


    get home from known for his cunning
    the Trojan War! and resourcefulness.
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    In Tennyson’s poem about
    Ulysses the hero is on the island of Ithaca
    In retirement Ulysses
    contemplates one final voyage…

    It’s written in the first person

    It’s a dramatic monologue

    Ulysses is speaking

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    In the first section Ulysses reflects on his
    life
    Talking about himself Ulysses

    It little profits that an idle king,


    By this still hearth, among these barren crags
    Suggests
    empty
    lack of
    action Give out The islanders
    Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole
    Unequal laws unto a savage race,
    That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
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    hey don’t recognise his achievements
    In the second section Ulysses looks
    back
    all times I have enjoyed
    reatly, have suffered greatly, both with those
    That loved me, and alone;
    Repeated for emphasis - Ulysses
    is a man of extremes both on shore
    Stars that bring rain
    At sea and when
    Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
    Vexed the dim sea:
    troubled
    The epic language
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    emphasises the scale of what he has done
    Ulysses thinks about the exciting
    times from his life
    am become a name; Much have I
    For always roaming seen and known;
    cities of men
    and manners,
    It is these times
    climates, councils
    that he remembers
    governments

    Where he was honoured

    runk delight of battle with my peers; He enjoyed war


    ar on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
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    Ulysses' past experience makes him want
    Sounds enticing more adventure
    experience is an arch wherethrough
    Gleams that untravelled world

    Travel and action are


    better than standing still
    Contrasts with “gleams”
    How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
    To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
    Comparing himself unpolished
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    Ulysses knows that he has not much time
    left
    He wants..
    Links the idea of
    travel and knowledge

    To follow knowledge like a sinking star,


    Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

    The journey which no


    one has yet travelled
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    In the next section he says he will
    leave his kingdom to his son
    Telemachus
    Telemachus has the job of
    civilizing the people of Ithaca Well-loved of me

    to make mild
    A rugged people, and through soft degrees
    Subdue them to the useful and the good.

    Ulysses want
    no part of this He works his work, I mine.

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    Ulysses gets set for his last voyage
    There gloom the dark broad seas. He speaks to
    How does this line make his mariners
    the voyage seem dangerous?
    you and I are old;

    He sees himself and He knows that


    his men as heroes death is close
    But before it arrive
    Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods
    Some work of noble note, may yet be don
    To be accomplished on the voyage
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    He’s ready to leave
    To sail beyond
    the sunset, Tis not too late to seek a newer world
    To the edge
    of the known Has an air
    world and the baths of finality
    Of all the western stars, until I die.

    Beyond the He‘s no desire to return


    straits of Gibraltar from this voyage

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    Perhaps he
    wanted to be
    reunited with him? thinks of paradise
    Ulysses

    It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,


    And see the great Achilles, whom we knew

    The companion of
    Ulysses at Troy “about the need of going forward
    and braving the struggle of life"

    Tennyson was 24 when he wrote th


    poem, shortly after the death
    of his friend Arthur Hallam
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    In the final section Ulysses realises he is
    old but he still wants to live life
    Most of his life is over remains
    Tho' much is taken, much abides

    He’s realistic about


    We are not now that strength his limitations
    But he won’t be beaten
    by what lies ahead
    but strong in will
    Is Ulysses trying to to strive, to seek,
    motivate himself to find, and not to yield
    for the journey? Give in
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