![]() “I am a part of all that I have met”(180). Although high school sometimes felt like the battle of Troy and I with my Achilles heel it is one of the greatest experience of my life. I can Honestly say that “All times I have enjoy’d greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those that loved me, and alone”(7-9). I have learn and experience things that will stay with me forever. People that have taught me things that had became a part of me just as my nationality is. I have met people whose words and faces I will never forget. I have discover new things and rekindle with the old things. Now I have been here for a quite a while, almost four years. They were things and experiences waiting for me to discover. High school was a just another experience waiting to happen. In the past I have discover middle and elementary school. This was just a new world waiting to be discover. *193 words*Īs a freshmen coming into High school, this place was new to me. ![]() I learned that my purpose should not become empty, but instead be filled with the certainty to follow my dreams and believe in my future before it’s too late. Therefore, as a senior, I should take risks and try new things that I haven’t done over the past three years of high school, and also reevaluate my purpose in life. Push off,…for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset”. He reminds us that “T’ is not too late to seek a newer world. On the other hand, Ulysses also gives us some advice. “To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought” is what I plan to do not only this year, but during college to help achieve my dream of nursing. He notices that without knowledge it’s harder to achieve the dreams you’ve planned. We all desire to be something more in our lives besides another statistic and Ulysses recognizes that in his journey. ~203 wordsĪs a senior, there are many aspects I have to think about, career wise, to prepare for college, but the first step is desiring to be something greater than what I am. That even though we will get weak physically, we must be strong in will and never stop pushing forward, never stop living, “To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die”. At the end of the poem he says, “Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” We can use this as advice for years further down the line. He then says, “…spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought” As seniors this quote tells us to never stop learning, to expand your horizons, and to continue to grow. Ulysses says, “I am a part of all that I have met” This quote shows us that everything we have experienced in these four years and even before has transformed us into the people we are today, and everything we experience after graduation will continue to shape us as people. ![]() As seniors approaching graduation we can use this poem as advice for how we should live our lives after high school. Knowing Ulysses and his men experienced great losses in the Iliad and experienced a distinct homesickness is the Odyssey paints Tennyson’s poem with an ironic and almost sad light that implies that Ulysses finds happiness elusive no matter where he might be.Ulysses is all about travel, expanding your knowledge, and living life to the fullest. However, the nuance of the poem relies on the reader being familiar with all the strife, challenges, and tragedy Ulysses and his men experience in the Iliad and the Odyssey. Tennyson’s poem is a continuation of Homer’s pics since Tennyson begins where The Odyssey ends, with Ulysses back home in Ithaca and reunited with his wife, Penelope, and his now grown son, Telemachus. ![]() That understanding comes from Homer’s epics as well as the cultural awareness and importance of Homer’s work. The poem relies on Homer since readers should already understand who Ulysses is and what he’s been through. Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” relies on Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, but also departs from these earlier sources. Ulysses, also known as Odysseus in ancient Greek, is a character from Homer’s epics.
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