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In Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Ulysses”, a character that initially seems utterly bored with his circumstances overcomes his idleness and rises to great heights. Tennyson does a wonderful job of legitimizing the pursuit “to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” through his work. The reader senses a feeling of hope because despite Ulysses’ complete dissatisfaction and boredom with life, he reflects upon his giftedness and accomplishments throughout the beginning of the poem, which as a result has an effect on his frustrated attitude and therefore on his outlook towards remaining stagnant versus striving forward. The poem is divided into two sections. The first half (up to line 32) presents Ulysses’ deep frustration. The last half presents his final fulfillment. His change of attitude is not due to duplicity and fickleness, but to the fact that hope has been restored and that he will once again fall into in what he is gifted to do—adventure and possible battle. Through this heroic adventurers journey, Tennyson reveals that the Romantics’ search of one’s desire and calling in life is in fact worthy of pursuit. In the first section, Ulysses is boldly realistic and truthful about his situation. Ulysses di