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This poem is written as a dramatic monologue: the entire poem is spoken by a single character, whose identity is revealed by his own words. The lines are in ...

Ulysses is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), written in 1833 and published in 1842 in his well-received ...

When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. ... Free hearts, free foreheads - you and I are old; Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all; but ...

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

This poem, like many of Tennyson's best, was written in the first few weeks after the death of his close friend and brother-in-law-to-be, Arthur Henry Hallam.

Come, my friends. 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite the sounding furrows; for my purpose holds

“Ulysses” Summary. Ulysses expresses frustration at how dull and pointless his life now seems as king of Ithaca, trapped at home on the rocky island of Ithaca.

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson ... Unequal laws unto a savage race,. That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. ... And manners, climates, councils, governments,.