... Tiresias's ghost that after killing his wife Penelope s suitors, he needed to take a final voyage. Tennyson also referred to Dante's "Inferno."" In "Inferno- Ulysses gave an account of the final journey. Tennyson's poem differs from Dante and Homer's works. Neither the "Odyssey- nor the "Inferno- described Penelope as being old, nor did they state that Ulysses had lived in Ithaca for a long time before he left ... for the final voyage. Tennyson referred to the "Odyssey- one more time in his poem, "The Lotos-Eaters."" He spoke of Odysseus' men when they ... left their ship in the beauti...

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