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In his seminal poem ''Ulysses'', Alfred Lord Tennyson describes an aged hero who, beset in his youth by countless troubles, finds he cannot now live in comfort and peace, but instead must seek adventure.  Curiously, the adventure that Tennyson's Ulysses seeks may not be the blood of war; rather, the text seems to suggest that Tennyson's Ulysses seeks to pass beyond the farthest reaches of human ''though'' ("My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me"), reflecting the [[Victorian Age|Victorian]] concern with pushing the limits of human knowledge.

In his seminal poem ''Ulysses'', Alfred Lord Tennyson describes an aged hero who, beset in his youth by countless troubles, finds he cannot now live in comfort and peace, but instead must seek adventure.  Curiously, the adventure that Tennyson's Ulysses seeks may not be the blood of war; rather, the text seems to suggest that Tennyson's Ulysses seeks to pass beyond the farthest reaches of human ''though'' ("My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me"), reflecting the [[Victorian Age|Victorian]] concern with pushing the limits of human knowledge.

There has been a great deal of analysis and inspection of the poem, speculating on the nature under which it is being given.  Some have suggested that Ulysses is dying near the end of the poem, for example, whereas others hold to the face values, in which the hero is giving a speech to his son before setting off on a final journey with his sailors.  Some support for the former theory might be found in the fact that during the events of the ''Odyssey'', all of Ulysses' men perished at one time or another leading up to the moment at which he first begins narrating the poem (which begins ''in media res''), when he is shipwrecked naked and alone.

There has been a great deal of analysis and inspection of the poem, speculating on the nature under which it is being given.  Some have suggested that Ulysses is dying near the end of the poem, for example, whereas others hold to the face values, in which the hero is giving a speech to his son before setting off on a final journey with his sailors.  Some support for the former theory might be found in the fact that during the events of the ''Odyssey'', all of Ulysses' men perished at one time or another leading up to the moment at which he first begins narrating the poem (which begins ''[[in media res]]''), when he is shipwrecked naked and alone.

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