Tennyson's
Ulysses (vv.18-32)

A.
Tennyson carries on explaining the passivity, the inability to move
of the people that surround him; he says that during his very busy
life he has always learn something, in fact
right from the 18^th
line "I am a part of all that I have met", the intelligent reader
can easily perceive the importance that  Tennyson's Ulysses to the
way of living, because experiences that you live change your
personality, they can also be dangerous(some of Ulysses' adventures
were very dangerous) but it is always better
to pass dangerous experiences that living passively(like Itacha's
population).

At the
22^nd line,
"How dull it is to pause", it's possible to understand Ulysses 's
boredom to live a passive life; the repetition of the word "life"
convays the idea of monotony of life on Itacha and in addition to
this there is Ulysses' provoking sentence towards inhabitants: "As
tho' to breathe were life!".

Tennyson
defines Ulysses also as a "bringer" because his will of knowledge
had brought him "Beyond the utmost bound of human thought" and
even if he's old, his desire to discover new aspects of life is still
the same of when he was young.