explain Ulysses poem
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Ulysses is the latinised version of the Greek mythological hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, first recorded in Homer's classic poems the Iliad and its sequel the Odyssey, which tells of Odysseus's ten year journey home following the Trojan War.
Tennyson loved the Greek myths. Several poems of his are directly inspired by them, so his choice of Ulysses (Odysseus) is understandable. He also knew of Dante's Inferno canto 26 where Ulysses is found in hell, for his many sins. Virgil the Roman poet also used Ulysses in his epic poem the Aeneid.
So it is that Virgil, Dante and Tennyson chose the original Homeric Odysseus and in each case recast the character for their particular work. James Joyce the Irish novelist also got in on the act with his novel Ulysses published in 1922.
Tennyson's Ulysses finds himself idle and restless at home after years of exploration and adventure. He tells himself :
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
Three Stages in Ulysses
1. The poem begins with Ulysses admitting that his life is a monotony despite him being king. All he does is waste his time with a people who don't know him. His wife is old, he doesn't even mention her name. (lines 1 - 5)
Ulysses looks back to better days when he truly lived and travelled the world. He yearns for more adventure and 'to follow knowledge' (lines 6 - 32)
Ulysses rejects the status quo.
2. He knows his son Telemachus will take over the kingdom and run it well when Ulysses has gone. (lines 33 - 43).
Abdicates responsibility.
3. Ulysses addresses his mariners and prepares them for the journey of all journeys, 'beyond the sunset', to seek and find and not to yield. (lines 44 - 70).
Prepares for the final journey.
The poem was written in 1833 and published in Poems in 1842. Some publications have the poem split into four stanzas but in the original book (and Tennyson's personal notebook) the poem is one long stanza, with indentations at lines 33 and 44.
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