English, 13.08.2020 08:01 stricklandjoseph12
Read the following poem about the epic hero Odysseus (Ulysses is his Roman name) and answer the questions that follow.
“Ulysses” by Alfred Tennyson
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,*
Matched 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 enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
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Through scudding* drifts the rainy Hyades
Vest the dim sea: I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
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Myself not least, but honored of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers; Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy*.
I am part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
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Gleams that untraveled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life
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Were all to little, and of one to me
Little remains: but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
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And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the scepter and the isle-
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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
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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.
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There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:
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There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners,
Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me-
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads- you and I are old;
Old age had yet his honor and his toil;
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
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The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
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The sounding furrows*; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths 60
Of all the western stars*, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles*,
And see the great Achilles*, whom we knew.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though 65
We are not now that strength which in the old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal-temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. 70
2 barren crags: here, the rugged landscape of Ithaca, the Greek island where Ulysses lives
4 unequal laws: rewards and punishments
7 lees: sediment found at the bottom of wine and other liquids; to “drink to the lees” is to drink to the last drop.
10 scudding: wind-driven; Hyades: a cluster of stars; when they rose, it was believed that rain would soon follow
16-17 battle … Troy: the Trojan War, which the Greeks won after a ten-year siege
42 meet: fitting; proper
59 sounding furrows: crashing waves
60-61 baths … stars: reference to the ancient belief that the stars descended into a sea or river that encircled the earth.
63 Happy Isles: in Greek mythology, the place where mortals favored by the gods are sent to dwell after they die 64 Achilles: the greatest warrior in the Greek assault on Troy
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