Ulysses’ distaste with remaining at home is evident immediately from the first line of the poem, “It little profits that an idle king.”(1) He does not wish to be sitting idly on the throne, when he could, “follow knowledge like a sinking star.”(31). He also indicates his aversion to partaking in the government matters of his civilians, stating, “I mete and dole/ Unequal laws.”(3-4) Ulysses also shows that he does not respect his subjects, calling them, “a savage race/ That hoard, and sleep.”(4-5) He feels that hoarding and resting is beneath him, and shows this later in the poem by saying, “and vile it were/ For some three suns to store and hoard myself.”(28-39) Ulysses feel

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