By Alfred Lord
Odysseus – Ulysses = wonderlust to
travel ulysses Tennyson
“idle” – lazy, Ulysses (Odysses) what is the point of
pointless It little profits that an idle king, being a king and doing nothing?
Fireplace By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Bare empty cliff
Nostalgic: reflects
adventure Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole He has a wife, she is old. Dole =
distribute/unemployed
Home = idle and milen unfair Unequal laws unto a savage race, Unmotivated to meet the rules, not much of his
people. He doesn’t think highly of them.
Philosophical Kept things That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. They don’t know/ understand them
Stagnation
Journeys I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Make opportunities of life
Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy’d He loved adventures
Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those He had difficulties he addmits
He had adventures on land and sea with his
That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when people
Soldiers Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Group of stars that brings rain
fast Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; Compulsive wonderer - reputation
The rain effects the sea
For always roaming with a hungry heart He personifies his desire and wonder
Much have I seen and known; cities of men He has travelled a lot, many places and cultures
And manners, climates, councils, governments, Refers to the leaders
He is important Myself not least, but honour’d of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Metaphor – he enjoys fighting with his peers
“ringing” – onomatopoeia (bottle) Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. Troy, his trogen - horse
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Odysseus – Ulysses = wonderlust to
travel ulysses Tennyson
“idle” – lazy, Ulysses (Odysses) what is the point of
pointless It little profits that an idle king, being a king and doing nothing?
Fireplace By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Bare empty cliff
Nostalgic: reflects
adventure Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole He has a wife, she is old. Dole =
distribute/unemployed
Home = idle and milen unfair Unequal laws unto a savage race, Unmotivated to meet the rules, not much of his
people. He doesn’t think highly of them.
Philosophical Kept things That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. They don’t know/ understand them
Stagnation
Journeys I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Make opportunities of life
Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy’d He loved adventures
Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those He had difficulties he addmits
He had adventures on land and sea with his
That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when people
Soldiers Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Group of stars that brings rain
fast Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; Compulsive wonderer - reputation
The rain effects the sea
For always roaming with a hungry heart He personifies his desire and wonder
Much have I seen and known; cities of men He has travelled a lot, many places and cultures
And manners, climates, councils, governments, Refers to the leaders
He is important Myself not least, but honour’d of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Metaphor – he enjoys fighting with his peers
“ringing” – onomatopoeia (bottle) Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. Troy, his trogen - horse
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