JAMB - Literature In English (2018 - No. 30)

“I cannot rest from travel: I will drink, life to the lees, all times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly”. A.L. Tennyson: “Ulysses”

  The lines above inform the reader that the poet

Is determined to suffer
Has his poetic imagination kindled
Will cure his sour mood
Will not drink much

Explanation

Tennyson's "Ulysses" is a poem about the heroic spirit .the poet expresses his luxuriance of imagination, and at the same time, his control over it.

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