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Ulysses. Play Audio. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Share. It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole. Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink. Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy'd.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson was born in the depths of Lincolnshire, the...
- Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Ulysses. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It little profits that an...
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Learn about the themes, form, and context of Tennyson's dramatic monologue, 'Ulysses', inspired by Homer's epic. Explore the speaker's character, journey, and quest for meaning in this classic poem.
Read the full text of Ulysses, a classic poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, inspired by Homer's Odyssey. The poem expresses the speaker's longing for adventure and exploration, despite his old age and declining powers.
Learn about the themes, symbols, and poetic devices of Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses", a dramatic monologue inspired by Homer's Odyssey. Read the full text, line-by-line explanations, and context of the poem.
Ulysses. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole. Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink. Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy'd.
Ulysses is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, inspired by Homer's Odyssey and Dante's Inferno. It depicts the mythical hero's discontent and restlessness after returning to Ithaca, and his longing for another adventure.
In this poem, written in 1833 and revised for publication in 1842, Tennyson reworks the figure of Ulysses by drawing on the ancient hero of Homer’s Odyssey (“Ulysses” is the Roman form of the Greek “Odysseus”) and the medieval hero of Dante’s Inferno.
