In
Tennyson's poem "," the speaker, who is the great former king and warrior Ulysses,
also known as Odysseus, wishes to travel. He has lived a long life, and he remembers the voyages
he took in his youth, both journeying to and from battle and just general voyages he took in
life. In spite of his old age, he yearns from the feeling of being in a new land, because it is
invigorating and exciting to see something new that he has never experienced before.
Ulysses is aging, and he feels death coming for him. Because of this, he wishes to
escape and feel he is doing something adventurous and dangerous. In this...
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