The speaker of this poem quotes Hamlet's "What is a man" speech in attacking those that "sleep and feed.
The speaker of this poem quotes Hamlet's "What is a man" speech in attacking those that "sleep and feed." It describes one person as "centered in the sphere of common duties, decent not to fail in offices of tenderness." Another part discusses people who "ever with a frolic welcome took the thunder and the sunshine." The speaker of this poem declares "I will drink life to the lees" and claims that "life piled on life were all too little." This poem starts with the speaker saying that he is "by this still hearth, among these barren crags." That speaker tells his friends, "'Tis not too late to seek a newer world." It ends with the speaker hoping to travel onwards "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." For 10 points, name this Tennyson poem about an "idle king" who was also the subject of a Homeric epic.
The speaker of this poem quotes Hamlet's "What is a man" speech in attacking those that "sleep and feed.
"Ulysses"