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King Ulysses Imperialism

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“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield,” is a famous line used in history but is primarily used in this writing to describe the great king Ulysses. Ulysses is a legend in writing due to his heroic actions for not only himself but for his kingdom. Now his adventured life has come to a pause and is filled with misery and boredom from sunrise to sunset. In the poem Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson he describes Ulysses as a bored, unpleasant, and honorable man. Ulysses life with filled with adventures that ranged from wars to journey of discovery, but he was always doing something. Now he is bored with having nothing to do. He is not only bored with himself but with the people of his country and even his wife. in Ulysses it says “ it little …show more content…

Ulysses is not a very pleasant ruler and doesn’t have the patience to be. But the next in line is fit to be a ruler far better than his father. Everyone knows this and keeps things in mind waiting for the new peace time ruler to come to the throne. As said by Alfred Lord Tennyson, “This is my son mine own Telemachus,/ to whom I leave the scepter and the isle well-loved of me, discerning to fulfill/ this labor, by slow prudence to make mild/ a rugged people, and through soft degrees/ subdue them to the useful and the good./ most blameless is he, centered in the sphere/ of common duties, decent not to fail/ in offices of tenderness, and pay/ meet adoration to my household gods,/ when i am gone. He works his work, I mine.” he and his son have different personal traits that will lead his son to be a greater ruler than Ulysses. Ulysses is not tender and nice leading his kingdom to success but the people living in the company to a dislike against …show more content…

“Little remains; but every hours is saved from the eternal silence, something more,/ a bringer of new things; and violet were/ for some three suns to store and hoard myself,” Ulysses thinks as every day on this planet is a waste but in eternal silence every hour is saved. if he spend three suns doing nothing he is bored. “It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;” Rather than live a life with his people he rather die on an adventure and be happy. In this way he thinks he has honored himself and lived life to the fullest he could. He is happy with dying in what he believes in than sitting around in misery and the shame he sees from doing

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