Read these lines from alfred, lord tennyson's "ulysses."
"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 horde, and sleep, and feed, and not know me."

which of the following is the speaker lamenting in the passage above?
a. the long-ago death of his wife
b. a lack of true fulfillment in his life
c. living in a constant state of danger
d. the degree of authority he is forced to wield