...Eclecticism, praiseworthy in its comparative freedom from prejudice, characterises the poet's attitude. " I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees : all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone. . . . I am become...

..."Ulysses": It little profits that an idle king By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. Blason: See blazon. Blazon: A poem listing the elements of physical attraction. Andrew MarvelTs "To...

...1978), 151. Actually, if Bauer has a literary alter ego, it is Tennyson's Ulysses, who in 1842 says, "I cannot rest from travel: I will drink/ life to the lees" as if the two are the same. The eternal restlessness of Bauer's Self-consciousness is Ulysses' philosophical...

...unhinged. It little profits that an idle king. By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. The first impression here is of an imperious command of language. It is a king speaking, and his tone...

...do worse than take the last few lines as a motto. During the poem Ulysses is pictured as saying: / cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when...

...22-23: "How dull it is to pause, to make an end, / To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!"; ll.4-5: "a savage race / That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me." 12 Such an argument assumes that the Arthur who is to "come again" is not merely a return of the Arthur...

...perhaps of why it has struck me as appropriate. [fragments from] Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson "... I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That lov'd me, and alone; .. ... I am become a name, For always roaming...

...Tennyson 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...travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when...

...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...That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. [Emphasis added.] So, in part just to see what happens, Odysseus has his men settle down to dine on...

...answers. It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, 5 That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to...