In the line "Come, my friends" in "Ulysses," who is the speaker, and who are addressed as friends?

The
speaker is(Odysseus) himself, and the poem is his melancholy reflection upon the aging process
and the fact that his time appears to be past. In spite of this, he refuses to give up or to
rest. To do so would be contrary to his own nature and to human natural in general, with its
atavistic impulse to keep on living and moving even in the face of imminent death.

The meaning of the "friends" he addresses is arguably open to a multi-level
interpretation. In the most basic sense, Ulysses appears to speak to the inhabitants of his
kingdom, Ithaca, though he has already alluded to...