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Assignment

• Reading: Dante Inferno
  • Dante's Universe
    
  • Tennyson "Ulysses"
  • Packet 48k "September When It Comes"
• Writing:
  Questions on "Ulysses" 

1. Outline the main ideas of each section of the poem.
2. What does Ulysses want? How does this contrast to what he wants in The Odyssey? What is his attitude toward his life ruling the island Ithaca?
3. How does Ulysses contrast himself to his son?
4. What do you think of Ulysses' views on how life should be lived?
   

 

“Ulysses” in Tennyson