The process of discovery entails a journey that can induce a metamorphosis in an individual through new experiences, which can be evoked by curiosity or wonder. Discoveries of both the known and unknown may be confronting and provocative, but what remains common is that that they are ultimately fresh and intensely meaningful. These all however lead to an acquisition of new perspectives that shape how an individual perceives the world they live in. These aspects are present in William Shakespeare's, " The Tempest", and Lord Alfred Tennyson's, "Ulysses". The Tempest demonstrates the notion, of h...

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... few poets have and Gibbons Ruark has it for sure. And the way he has ended the poem is outstanding, how he describes the cat's movements as such which only free animals in dark can do and how that one stroke by the cat replaces all human noises such as that of the car and lingers on in the narrator's mind ... ...

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