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Ulysses

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Ulysses, blank-verse poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, written in 1833 and published in the two-volume collection Poems (1842). In a stirring dramatic monologue, the aged title character outlines his plans to abandon his dreary kingdom of Ithaca to reclaim lost glory in a final adventure on the seas. It was one of several poems that Tennyson composed in response to the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam. Restless and bored with Ithaca, Ulysses turns his throne over to his prudent son Telemachus and rallies his men with inspiring words of heroism. The ironic distance of the narrative voice intensifies ...(100 of 148 words)

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