Question

4. Describe the strong desire in Ulysses.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Ulysses wants to travel, he wants to take to the high seas and embark upon exciting new adventures. Ulysses is an old man, acutely aware of his own mortality.

Answer 2

Answer:

In Tennyson's poem "Ulysses," the speaker, who is the great former king and warrior Ulysses, also known as Odysseus, wishes to travel. ... Ulysses is aging, and he feels death coming for him. Because of this, he wishes to escape and feel he is doing something adventurous and dangerous.

Ulysses wants to travel; he wants to take to the high seas and embark upon exciting new adventures. Ulysses is an old man, acutely aware of his own mortality.