He says that it is dull to pause and make an end, or give up travelling and settle down. The untraveled world’s boundaries are constantly expanding, and he wishes to see these unseen places. Yet, all this travelling has not fully satisfied him and has only left him yearning for more. This means that his experiences and encounters have shaped him as a person, just as he has shaped them. He says that he is a part of all that he has experienced and everyone that he has met. He remembers the drunk delight of battle that he experienced fighting alongside his fellow soldiers during the Trojan war in the ringing plains of windy Troy. This includes all kinds of cities of men and manners, climates, councils and governments. Ulysses says that he has seen and known much. To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!Īs tho’ to breathe were life! Life piled on life Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fades Myself not least, but honour’d of them all Īnd drunk delight of battle with my peers, Stanza 4-6 Much have I seen and known cities of menĪnd manners, climates, councils, governments, He has become a famous name throughout the world for always roaming with a hungry heart that wishes to travel and see more. He says that he greatly enjoyed as well as greatly suffered every moment that he spent travelling whether it was with people that loved him like his crew members, or all alone by himself whether he was on shore, or stuck in a rainstorm that the constellation Hyades had cursed the dim sea with. So, Ulysses still desires to travel the world like he used to. Ulysses says he cannot rest from travel because he wants to drink life to the lees, or live life to the fullest. They do not know anything about Ulysses or his life. We get to know about the reasons for Ulysses’ frustration at home.Īll that the savage people of his kingdom do is hoard and sleep and eat. He feels that it is useless to spend his time enforcing imperfect laws to govern uncivilized people. He has an old wife and he enforces unequal laws unto a savage race. He says that it is not very useful to be an idle king who sits by his fire at home among the barren rocky shores of Ithaca. Ulysses talks about his dull and boring life as king of Ithaca. That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy’d That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole Stanza 1-3 It little profits that an idle king,īy this still hearth, among these barren crags, The poem is a dramatic monologue written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. So, he hands over his kingdom to his son, and along with his old companions, sets out on a final journey in his old age. He wants to go out and travel again for he believes that to be the purpose of his life. Ulysses is not happy with his boring life as king of Ithaca. In this poem, Tennyson tells us the tale of the great hero Ulysses who sets out for a final journey before his death.
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