How is imagery of food and drink used in Alfred Tennyson's "Ulysses"?

of food and
drink plays a subtle but important role in Alfred Tennysons poem . In the poem, Ulysses €“ the
great Greek epic hero €“ decides to continue voyaging rather than staying in Ithaca, from which
he had been absent for twenty years. Examples in the poem of imagery of eating and drinking
include the following:

• In line 5, Ulysses says that the people he
  now rules hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. He thereby implies that they are
  materialistic and are concerned only with the pleasures of the flesh. They do not appreciate the
  loftier ideals that motivate their king.
• In contrast to his rather lazy
  people, Ulysses proclaims that he himself will

drink

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