Explain what you think is the key line in "Ulysses" by Tennyson.

You will undoubtedly
receive a variety of different answers to this question, as one's reading of poetry is
essentially a personal affair. For me, one of the key phrases in this poem is the
descriptiongives us of how experience can never be satisfied or exhausted:

Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough

Gleams
that untraveled world whose margin fades

Forever and forever when I
move.

This of course captures the central theme of this
poem, which is the way in which Ulysses is not able to accept a quiet life and is determined to
live his life to the full, making the most of every single second he is given to gain new
experiences and not become stagnant. Thein this quote is a beautiful rendition of how each new
experience we gain only leads us on to gain yet more new experiences, and how we are unable to
ever reach the limit or end of experience. It points towards a true questing spirit that can
never be happy sitting idle, and is a model to all of us.