Tennyson's Ulysses: analysis (second part)

Experiences are compared to an arch which symbolizes both a way of time passing (in the Victorian age time was time was calculated through natural phenomena, "three suns" and atmospheric changes) and a weapon which expresses the concept of fighting every day life."Life piled on life" pictures the way people of Ithaca live: this sentence recalls the idea of monotony (through the repetition of sounds) and also it suggested the routine of every day. Ulysses still desires the part of world who has never visited because unknown has always attracted him. Curiosity so is the base of f knowledge. Ulysses wants to escape from the routine life (here Ulysses seems to become a Romantic hero) to expand his horizons, to see new places and to learn more and more. He appears to be like a sinking star, which follows knowledge "beyond the utmost bound of human thought", and so beyond the space. He knows, since he became older, that "little remains", but nevertheless "every hours is saved from that eternal silence (which means the death), somethimg more, a bringer of new things". These words evidence again the tireless desire to discover something new. Desire that keeps on during the old age, because in oldness someone can find out more and more