Understanding Tennyson's "Ulysses"

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This was great! Such a helpful explanation. It all makes much more sense now. Thank you for your time!

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[@timfreckman5227]

Turning 61 tomorrow. Read this poem almost 30 years, and have revisited it several times since. "For all experience is an arch..." I wonder if he would have felt different if he had grandkids? Awesome video. Subscribed.

[@ayusmanchiranjibi6007]

That's a great interpretation. Thanks a lot!! And I love the last lines - 'not to yield'!!

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Here so I can make a stand about the poem "Ulysses" that our English for Academic and Professional Purposes teacher asks us to do. Thank you, this clears things up for me.

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Some teachers can very effectively kill the love of poetry in young people forever and this is one of them. I was lucky. I had a teacher that brought this poem to life for us with motion, drama and incredible passion and when we little boys trooped out of class we were stunned and our eyes gazed out of the school windows at the horizon in silence. Later that day there were some injuries as we fought each other with wooden swords in the Second Trojan War near the trees of the sports field and afterwards there was a line to see Nurse to patch us up. The head master berated us and we were punished by being restricted to the football field in front of the school but we divided ourselves again and fought the Third Trojan War until Nurse ran out and stopped it and the fat boy was knocked out. A boy called Derbyshire was caned and he took his beating without muttering a sound which greatly annoyed the head master who was called Tubby Lester. We all gave Derbyshire chocolate and sweets from out tuck boxes and he became the richest kid in the school and the prefects had the youngest boys shine his shoes every day before inspection. Later in life I studied Ancient Greek and I enjoyed insulting my superiors by calling them "Great King of Persia." I had forgotten about it all until I stumbled across this gift from the electric mist.

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[@skooba451]

Beautiful introduction of the poem’s meaning and structure ! Thank you !

[@SixMinuteScholar]

You're welcome!

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Wonderful video! Thank you, 2000 years of history: Homer, Dante, Tennyson!

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Hedye ls I'm glad you enjoyed! Hope your exam went well! Yes, I stopped dying my hair a couple of years ago. This is my natural color!

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[@shelleywinters6763]

I just watched someone's snippet of this poem, now I see it wasn't the whole poem, which took it out of context for me. Because it started with the bit about still could do stuff even tho old. I interpreted it like the 'rage against the dying of the light' by Dylan Thomas fighting against the inevitable. You're explanation of what the text means confirms or re affirms that interpretation. He's running away from death to squeeze the last bit of life out of himself. If there is a mid life crisis, I think this is the end of life crisis. Thanks for going through the whole thing line by line.

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I've been reading this poem to prepare for my exams, and I couldn't understand it until now. Thank you so much!

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Maybe do the defence of Lucknow by Tennyson please?

[@misterrobot1286]

Ulysses is an aged man, and it seems ironic for him to travel the vast ocean given his frail and wrinkled body. Maybe his will is strong, but he has his limits. The poem is Ulysses's desire to continue to voyage the dim sea and the boundless ocean. But such desire is beyond me.

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Hi Ma'am your descriptions and explanation is amazing but could you please tell me what is the meaninig of mete and dole in the second line, because the meanings written in google doesn't match with the context of the given poem.

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For the restless...the journey is more than a destination...it is a never ending becoming! The 'sea'...is the medium of adventure...and the unknown...a challenge to be better informed... whether it is crossed by boat...or by plane...or balloon....the act of moving out of one's comfort zone is critical to the experience. There is always a guilt...afterwards... and then...an acceptance of the spirit...within. We...will seek...to find and strive...but never to yield! John Ferraz Architect.

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Asher Selig I'm so glad!

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The poem suggests that we should pursue our passion while being tolerant of those who have chosen a different path.

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Apoorva Raghuvanshi I'm so glad! :-)

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This poem speaks to the older man, who may have done great things in his younger days, and wishes to die in adventure rather than rust away.his family doesn't need him.altough he is older and weaker, he is still the same man he always was.

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[@SixMinuteScholar]

You're welcome! Thanks very much. I hope some of the stories you need help with are on my channel. I need to put up some new ones! I am writing a novel right now, but I will try to put up one or two more videos this fall. Good luck with your class!

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Please add poems like The last ride together or tintern Abbey. Will be verry greatfull to you.!!

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Man oh man, if you did "The Love Song of Alfred.." by T.S. Eliot .... that would be phenomenal.

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Alexander F. Yes! It so happens that I did. Hope it helps!

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Thanks Mam..it helps me a lot. i have little problem about one terms you use in this lecture,,actually i can not get it. you have said three terms about this poem. it is dramatic monologue, it is blank verse and,,,,? this third one, i can not understand. would you please do me a little favour,,what is it?

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Iambic pentameter

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Thank you ma'am 😊

[@SixMinuteScholar]

You're welcome!

[@naseebwazir4357]

can you please explain "stanzas-April 1814" by percy bysshe shelley.

[@SixMinuteScholar]

naseeb wazir So sorry; I haven't read that one. :-(

[@naseebwazir4357]

SixMinuteScholar can you please read and upload a video explaining it

[@SixMinuteScholar]

naseeb wazir Sorry, I am spending time with family today. Advice: Read the poem aloud to hear each word. Use a dictionary to find the meanings of words you don't know. Write out your own version of the poem in words that make sense to you. Figure out the situation in the poem, then the speaker. Notice the metaphors, the rhyme pattern. That work will lead you to a deeper understanding of the poem. Good luck!

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naseeb wazir that is such fantastic advice