What are Ulysses' feelings about aging?

This
question, the question of confronting the process of aging, is at the heart of Tennyson's
"." The poem is essentially theof an aging Ulysses (the Latin form of Odysseus)
reflecting upon his life from the boring comfort of his home, Ithaca. Throughout the poem,
Ulysses rails against his advanced years, hating his old age for the perceived weakness and
uselessness it brings.

Ulysses gives us several clues as to his feelings
about old age, but there are a few particular examples that are worth noting. Consider, for
instance, the following lines:

How dull it is to pause,
to make an end,

To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
(22-3)

In these lines, Ulysses compares old age
to...

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