He addresses a group who have always "with a frolic welcome" taken both the "thunder and the sunshine," and hopes that they will assist him in performing a task "not unbecoming" to "men that strove with Gods."
The title figure hopes that his son will be able, through "slow prudence," to "make mild" a "rugged people" who need to be subdued to "the useful and the good." He addresses a group who have always "with a frolic welcome" taken both the "thunder and the sunshine," and hopes that they will assist him in performing a task "not unbecoming" to "men that strove with Gods." Earlier images in the poem include the "rainy Hyades," which are said to have "vext the dim sea" through "scudding drifts," and a comparison of experience to an "arch wherethro' / Gleams that untravell'd world." The speaker hopes to "touch the Happy Isles" and "see the great Achilles" if his voyage is successful, and is determined "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." FTP, name this dramatic monologue about an "idle king" written by Alfred Tennyson.
The title figure hopes that his son will be able, through "slow prudence," to "make mild" a "rugged people" who need to be subdued to "the useful and the good."
“{Ulysses}”