LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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Question
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Tennyson’s “Ulysses” can be characterized in all of the following ways, EXCEPT:
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it thematizes the importance of choosing action over complacency.
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it reflects a Victorian attitude of continuing to fight against loss of hope or faith.
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it uses Greek mythology to comment on contemporary questions.
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it emphasizes the internal life of the mind over social action.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus/Ulysses struggles for years to return to Ithaca. In Tennyson’s poem, however, Ulysses has discovered that home is not enough to make him happy. Paradoxically, his years spent traveling to return home did not make him love that home; it made him love travel and adventure.
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