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“The Discussion of Three Messages from Ulysses”

Have you ever read the novel the Odyssey? Well in this novel it is about how a man is away from his home for many years, and when he gets home he has to fight compete to get his wife and kingdom back. In this novel it shows when the man named Ulysses is young and he can do whatever he wants. To show how old Ulysses has become Lord Tennyson writes a poem named Ulysses. Lord Tennyson writes a poem like this because the greek never killed Ulysses like many of their other stories, so Lord Tennyson wants to show what Ulysses does with his life after all the adventures stop and Ulysses has grown old. In this poem Ulysses by Lord Tennyson there are three messages
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This is the second message that is in the poem Ulysses by Lord Tennyson because he shows how eventually the young will have to take over for the people who have grown older. Also Lord Tennyson uses this as a message because in the poem he shows how the young will have to do the things that the old people usually do. Another reason he does this is to show how the young people will have to eventually grow up to do things. In the poem Ulysses by Lord Tennyson he states, “When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.” Lord Tennyson states this in his poem is to show how he will leave thing to his son when he is gone. Clearly he want to show that eventually the young will have to do what the old people have …show more content…
Lord Tennyson states this in his poem because people will not tell you when you should start you life, He wants people to start there own life because people will not tell u to live like you are deing. Another reason he states this in the poem Ulysses is because he thinks that people will wait to be told that they are going to die and they should start to do some things with their lives. In the poem Ulysses by Lord Tennyson he states, “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.” Lord Tennyson states this in his poem because he wants people to know that he has never not lived and he will keep doing that. Clearly, Lord Tennyson wants people to live their life to the

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