<P> "Ulysses" is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809--1892), written in 1833 and published in 1842 in his well - received second volume of poetry . An oft - quoted poem, it is popularly used to illustrate the dramatic monologue form . Facing old age, mythical hero Ulysses describes his discontent and restlessness upon returning to his kingdom, Ithaca, after his far - ranging travels . Despite his reunion with his wife Penelope and son Telemachus, Ulysses yearns to explore again . </P> <P> The character of Ulysses (in Greek, Odysseus) has been explored widely in literature . The adventures of Odysseus were first recorded in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (c. 800--700 BC), and Tennyson draws on Homer's narrative in the poem . Most critics, however, find that Tennyson's Ulysses recalls Dante's Ulisse in his Inferno (c. 1320). In Dante's re-telling, Ulisse is condemned to hell among the false counsellors, both for his pursuit of knowledge beyond human bounds and for creating the deception of the Trojan horse . </P>

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