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Other ironic readings have found Ulysses longing for withdrawal, even death, in the form of his proposed quest.
In noting the sense of passivity in the poem, critics highlight Tennyson's tendency toward the melancholic.
T. S. Eliot opines that " Tennyson could not tell a story at all ".
He finds Dante's treatment of Ulysses exciting, while Tennyson's piece is " an elegiac mood ".
" Ulysses " is found lacking in narrative action ; the hero's goal is vague, and by the poem's famous last line, it is not clear for what he is " striving ", or to what he refuses to yield.
According to Victorian scholar Herbert Tucker, Tennyson ’ s characters " move " through time and space to be moved inwardly.
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