Saturday, 30 April 2016

In Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "Ulysses," what do you think Ulysses is determined not to "yield" to?

In s poem
, the title character seems determined not to yield to the following temptations:


* Idleness (line 1)

* Simple domestic pleasures (line 3)


* Merely rote political behavior (lines 4-5)

* Mere physical
pleasures, such as sleeping and eating (line 5)

* Settling in (or for) just
one place...

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