In the poem Ulysses, author Alfred Tennyson shows us a Ulysses that is quite different from the one we are used to from such epics as the Iliad and the Odyssey. In the first of three sections of the poem, Tennyson's Ulysses is a begrudged and aging man who feels disappointed with the latter years of his life. He feels that his life is pointless, unless he can get out and do some more adventuring. He is also very disappointed that people are forgetting about his past adventures; "...unto a savage race, that hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me". The whole mood of the section
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