the time of Travel

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Ulysses The poem is wrigen like a dramaEc monologue, and it has blank verse. He recounts the journey of Odysseus to return home. Arrived at home is happy to see his family, but soon realizes that it can not help but travel. He feel himself restless and bored and he will not have a sedentary existence. He want to have the triumphs of his past once more again. So he is determinate to start a new voyage to an unknown des-na-on. •

In the last lines of the poem the author reflects on the nature of heroism.

The phrase” to seek a newer world” is linked to the BriEsh Empire expansionism.

John William Waterhouse Mermaid -­‐ 1901


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