The speaker of this poem yearns "to follow knowledge like a sinking star / Beyond the utmost bound of human thought" and obse
The speaker of this poem yearns "to follow knowledge like a sinking star / Beyond the utmost bound of human thought" and observes that though "the long day wanes," "'Tis not too late to seek a newer world." In the opening lines of this poem, the speaker voices his frustration at living "By this still hearth / among these barren crags" and doling "Unequal laws unto a savage race." In the second stanza, the speaker introduces his son, who attempts to "by slow prudence to make mild / A rugged people." The final stanza of this poem calls for mariners to join the speaker in his quest to "sail beyond the sunset" in "One equal temper of heroic hearts." Ending with the speaker proclaiming that he is "strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield," for 10 points, name this Tennyson poem about an aged hero of a Greek epic.
The speaker of this poem yearns "to follow knowledge like a sinking star /
"Ulysses"