The speaker of this poem describes experience as "an arch wherethrough gleams / that untraveled world," but earlier notes that "I am become a name." The title character praises his son who can "make mild a rugged people" but laments his duty to "mete and dole unequal laws to a savage race." The title character "cannot rest from travel" but claims "I am a part of all that I
The speaker of this poem describes experience as "an arch wherethrough gleams / that untraveled world," but earlier notes that "I am become a name." The title character praises his son who can "make mild a rugged people" but laments his duty to "mete and dole unequal laws to a savage race." The title character "cannot rest from travel" but claims "I am a part of all that I have met" after describing the "drunk delight" of battle in Troy. The title figure is determined to "to touch the Happy isles / and see Achilles," and resolves "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." For 10 points, identify this poem about an Ithacan king by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
The speaker of this poem describes experience as "an arch wherethrough gleams / that untraveled world," but earlier notes that "I am become a name.
{“Ulysses”}