Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Who does Ulysses refer to as a savage race?

The
phrase "savage race" occurs in the fourth line of Tennyson's poem "." The
third and fourth lines run in full:

Match'd with an aged
wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race


The narrator of the poem is Odysseus, to whom Tennyson refers by the Latinized version
of his name, Ulysses. The poem is situated as a sort of sequel to Homer's

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