Tone is how humans convey their messages. If everyone spoke in a monotone, there would be no true understanding of ones feelings. Everyone who be left in the dark and clue less about what everyone else truly felt. Tone is writing is used to help convey complex ideas in order to help the readers or audience take into consideration how the writer or poet truly feels about the topic or situation. Throughout the poem, Ulysses’ tone helps to convey his complex response to growing old to his audience.
Ulysses opens his first stanza with a tone of frustration and annoyance. Ulysses uses words like “still”, “barren”, “aged”, “hoard”, and “sleep” in order to express how boring and dead his town is to him. Everything is “still”. There is nothing here …show more content…
“How dull it is to pause, to make an end,/To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!” (lines 22-23), Ulysses exclaims. He has been dulled like a sword out of use. When a sword is used, it is taken care of and always shines. But if it is out of use and it just sits around, it will inevitably rust and become weak. Life is not meant to consist of sitting around and rusting away like an old sword. Life is meant to be lived, and that means going out and making it shine in one’s own way and age should never get in the way of …show more content…
Ulysses is old and “gray”, but yet he still wants to adventure. He wants to find what’s around every corner and adventure into the unknown. Ulysses has this desire to discover new places that nobody else has before. To be able to experience things that he nor anyone else in the world has ever experienced, because life is meant for new discoveries and new sensations, no matter ones age.
In the second stanza, Ulysses has a tone of reassurance for his audience. Ulysses is talking about his son and how he is a polar opposite from him. Telemachus is, ““…discerning to fulfill/ This labour, by slow prudence to make mild/ a rugged people, and thro’ soft degrees/ Subdue them to the useful and the good” (lines 35-38), as Ulysses claims. On the other hand, Ulysses can barely stand the thought of staying in one place forever. He builds up the idea of his son taking care of the town because Ulysses wants to go off and leave Telemachus in
Ulysses opens his first stanza with a tone of frustration and annoyance. Ulysses uses words like “still”, “barren”, “aged”, “hoard”, and “sleep” in order to express how boring and dead his town is to him. Everything is “still”. There is nothing here …show more content…
“How dull it is to pause, to make an end,/To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!” (lines 22-23), Ulysses exclaims. He has been dulled like a sword out of use. When a sword is used, it is taken care of and always shines. But if it is out of use and it just sits around, it will inevitably rust and become weak. Life is not meant to consist of sitting around and rusting away like an old sword. Life is meant to be lived, and that means going out and making it shine in one’s own way and age should never get in the way of …show more content…
Ulysses is old and “gray”, but yet he still wants to adventure. He wants to find what’s around every corner and adventure into the unknown. Ulysses has this desire to discover new places that nobody else has before. To be able to experience things that he nor anyone else in the world has ever experienced, because life is meant for new discoveries and new sensations, no matter ones age.
In the second stanza, Ulysses has a tone of reassurance for his audience. Ulysses is talking about his son and how he is a polar opposite from him. Telemachus is, ““…discerning to fulfill/ This labour, by slow prudence to make mild/ a rugged people, and thro’ soft degrees/ Subdue them to the useful and the good” (lines 35-38), as Ulysses claims. On the other hand, Ulysses can barely stand the thought of staying in one place forever. He builds up the idea of his son taking care of the town because Ulysses wants to go off and leave Telemachus in