Sunday, 23 October 2011

What does Ulysses want his listeners to do?

In
Tennyson's " ," we meet an aged Ulysses struggling against the effects of time,
mortality, and old age. In stark contrast to the dashing hero who led armies in the Trojan War
and beguiled monsters during his travels back to Ithaca, Ulysses is now an old man who resents
his responsibilities to his subjects and family. Ulysses says "I am become a name"
(11), thus...

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