What are some thematic connections between Tennyson's poems "The Lady of Shallot" and "Ulysses"?

s poems
and are two of his most famous works. These poems share a number of common themes or motifs,
including the following:

• A sense that the two main characters of
  the poems are isolated from their societies.
• A setting in a remote and
  mythical past.
• A sense of melancholy shared by the two main
  characters.
• A fascination, by both characters, with activity and movement,
  from which they both feel isolated at the moment.
• A determination to make a
  significant voyage in a boat.
• A sense that the voyage each character
  undertakes may (and in the...