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{{Center|{{Large|Ulysses}}<br /> | {{Center|{{Large|Ulysses}}{{refn|Tennyson writes: “There is more about myself in ‘Ulysses,’ which was written under the sense of loss and that all had gone by, but that still life must be fought out to the end” (quoted in {{harvnb|Ricks|1989|p=113}}). The figure of Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s ''Odyssey'' and called “Ulysses” by the Romans, wandered for 10 years after the fall of Troy. In Tennyson’s poem, he faces domestic drudgery and indifference in his old age, and he longs to travel again to renew his spirit.}} <br /> | ||
By: [[w:Alfred, Lord Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ([[w:Ulysses (poem)|{{date|1833}}]])}} | By: [[w:Alfred, Lord Tennyson|Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] ([[w:Ulysses (poem)|{{date|1833}}]])}} | ||
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It little profits that an idle king, | It little profits that an idle king, | ||
By this still hearth, among these barren crags, | By this still hearth, among these barren crags, | ||
Match’d with an | Match’d with an agèd wife, I mete and dole | ||
Unequal laws unto a savage race, | Unequal laws unto a savage race, | ||
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. {{ln|5}} | That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.{{refn|These opening lines a clipped and melancholy and stony revealing a former traveler and man-of-action has become the victim of a life-weariness, an ''ennui'' that cannot be cured by idleness ({{harvnb|Ricks|1989|pp=114–115}}).}} {{ln|5}} | ||
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink | I cannot rest from travel: I will drink | ||
Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy’d | Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy’d | ||
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It little profits that an idle king, |
Notes & Comentary
- ↑ Tennyson writes: “There is more about myself in ‘Ulysses,’ which was written under the sense of loss and that all had gone by, but that still life must be fought out to the end” (quoted in Ricks 1989, p. 113). The figure of Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s Odyssey and called “Ulysses” by the Romans, wandered for 10 years after the fall of Troy. In Tennyson’s poem, he faces domestic drudgery and indifference in his old age, and he longs to travel again to renew his spirit.
- ↑ These opening lines a clipped and melancholy and stony revealing a former traveler and man-of-action has become the victim of a life-weariness, an ennui that cannot be cured by idleness (Ricks 1989, pp. 114–115).
Works Cited
- Ricks, Christopher (1989). Tennyson (Second ed.). London: Palgrave.