1. Literature and the Process of Discovery
... driven to "drink life to the lees", Tennyson reveals the innate hunger of Ulysses to travel and seek fulfilment from the emptiness of Ithaca, evident through emotive language, and similie as he "[yearns] in desire to follow knowledge like a sinking star, beyond the upmost bound of human thought". In the final line of the poem, this desire evolves into ... purpose as Ulysses preaches the aphoristic statement: "to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield", with its repetition ... and rhythmic resonance emphasising the resolute human drive to travel ... ...
- Word Count: 917
- Approx Pages: 4
- Grade Level: Graduate