Ulysses
In the poem, through a monologue, Ulysses carries out his last journey and reflects back on his eventful life. It seem as if Ulysses is trying to justify his actions and explain his passions for travelling and adventure and that being his ‘hungry heart’.
From the first line of the poem, it becomes noticeable that Ulysses is bored and unexcited by his current position, ‘It little profits that an idle king’. His statement reveals that personally Ulysses gains no profit from being a king and that he would rather return to his travels and active life.
From Ulysses thoughts we can sympathise with him and see that he misses his adrenaline pumping past, his good and bad times. He talks about suffering, being alone, with company, on land and on sea, and this highlights the difference between his engaging past and ‘idle’ present. He talks about leaving a mark, a memory on everybody he came across ‘I am a part of all I have met’, his ability to do so makes him a positive......
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