<P> "Ulysses" remains much admired, even as the twentieth century brought new interpretations of the poem . Professor of literature Basil Willey commented in 1956, "In' Ulysses' the sense that he must press on and not moulder in idleness is expressed objectively, through the classical story, and not subjectively as his own experience . (Tennyson) comes here as near perfection in the grand manner as he ever did; the poem is flawless in tone from beginning to end; spare, grave, free from excessive decoration, and full of firmly controlled feeling ." In the fifteenth edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1980), nine sections of "Ulysses", comprising 36 of the poem's 70 lines, are quoted, compared to only six in the ninth edition (1891). </P> <P> Many readers have accepted the acclaimed last lines of "Ulysses" as inspirational . The poem's ending line has also been used as a motto by schools and other organisations . The final line is inscribed on a cross at Observation Hill, Antarctica, to commemorate explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his party, who died on their return trek from the South Pole in 1912: </P> <P> One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield . (68--70) </P>

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