Decide that we have already seen all that life has to offer and spurn the rest? Sit in our chair and prepare for the final curtain?'Never,' says the Greek hero Ulysses in Tennyson's dramatic monologue. He is already an old man, long since returned from the Trojan War and reunited with his wife, the patient Penelope. Yet he is bored stiff. In this section from the poem, Ulysses asserts that he "cannot rest from travel." He cannot abandon who he is. The dull business of kingship and governance are not for him; he was made for the ocean waves and adventure.
from Christopher Nield: The Epoch Times: Antidote: A Reading of 'Ulysses' by Lord Alfred Tennyson
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