Explication of Ulysses Essay -- Alfred Tennyson

Explication Of UlyssesIn this poem, Tennyson reworks the figure of Ulysses by drawing on the ancient combatant of Homers Odyssey. Homers Ulysses learns from a prophecy that he will take a final sea voyage after killing the suitors of his wife Penelope. Ulysses finds himself restless in Ithaca and dictated by the longing I had to gain experience of the world.Ulysses says that there is little point in his sojourning home by this still hearth with his mature wife, handing out rewards and punishments for all of his subjects who live in his kingdom.Still speaking to himself he proclaims that he cannot rest from travel but feels required to live to the fullest and swallow all last drop of life. He has enjoyed all his experiences as a sailor who travels the seas, and he considers himself a model for everyone who wanders and roams the earth. His travels have exposed him to many different types of mass and ways of living. They have also exposed him to the delight of battle while fighti ng the Trojan War with his men. Ulysses declares that his travels and encounters have shaped who he is I am a part of all that I have met, he says. And it is only when he is traveling that the margin of the world that he has not yet travelled shrink and fade, and stop to push him.Ulysses declares that it is boring to stay in one place, and that to remain at a standstill is to waste rather than to flourish to stay in one place is to pretend that all there is to life is the simple a...