Ulysses by Lord Tennyson expresses a longing for constant exploration and experience. Similar to Tennyson's other works, it reflects a Victorian sensibility.
Ulysses Lyrics: It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an agèd wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws ...
James Bond does poetry: Skyfall poem The final lines of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem 'Ulysses' feature in the James Bond film, Skyfall, starring Daniel Craig. M ...
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.
“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.
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. ... For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
Ulysses, who symbolizes the grieving poet, proclaims his resolution to push onward in spite of the awareness that “death closes all” (line 51). As Tennyson ...
