1. Literature and the Process of Discovery
... presented through Ulysses being 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 ... ...
- Word Count: 917
- Approx Pages: 4
- Grade Level: Graduate