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.