What is Ulysses' opinion of retirement in "Ulysses"?

The
construction ofin Tennyson's poem is one that dislikes retirement.  Essentially, Tennyson
constructs a character who cannot return to the life of domesticity.  After enduring so very
much in his trials to get back home, Tennyson argues that Ulysses would have a difficult time
putting this aside and returning to the life of the simple husband and father in
Ithaca: ...