Ulysses

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Ulysses

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Sep 29, 2023

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For our Poetry Aloud this week, we are revisiting Tennyson’s fine poem, “Ulysses,” as quite fitting for our week’s theme. It’s a poem worth reading again and again.

As everyone who has read Homer’s Odyssey knows, the long-wandering Odysseus manages to make his way home to Ithaca, to his faithful wife Penelope, his son Telemachus whom he left twenty ye…

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