Summary Of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Ulysses

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Most call it a bucket list, some call it life goals, and others simply say, “this is how I am going to live my life till the day I die”. The Odyssey, a well know story about the brave man, who struggled with the Greek army to break the walls of the city of Troy, also known as The Battle of Troy. For ten years, this man struggled to break the walls of Troy, not being able to conquer their obscure structure. Till one day, when he thought of the miracle idea of building a large wooden horse, where the Greek soldiers would hide make their way into the town of Troy and destroy the entire town from the top down. Any well educated person knows this story, but did you know that the Greeks changed Odyssey’s name to Ulysses, to match their Roman language? A well known Victorian author named Alfred, Lord Tennyson, brought up a question that no other author has taken into consideration. What exactly happened to the courageous Ulysses when he took the steps into seniority? Within the poem Ulysses, written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tennyson addresses three key ideals you should consider when you realize that your life is close to its end: live your life to the fullest, keep your life …show more content…

Ulysses will never sit there waiting for something to come to him, he will live life to the fullest and search for a new opportunity every chance he gets. Every day you have two options when you wake up in the morning. Will you sit in bed and dwell on the previous days occurrences, or will you get out of bed put a fresh pair of clothes on and observe all the possibilities of the day? There should never be a dull moment in your life. Every opportunity you have in your life you should take, because there is a chance that you will never receive that opportunity again. Never have a dull outlook on life each day is a new chance to do something

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