1. You, again, need to find out about the who, where, when and why of the poem. The listener of the poem, however, might be hard to identify, which makes the poem different from Browning's. Can you tell who the listeners are?
2. How does Ulysses think about his present life (ll. 1-5), his past experience (ll. 7-21), and what life should and should not be like (ll. 22-32). Why does Ulysses compare himself to "gray spirit" and "a sinking star"?
3. What does Ullysses mean when he said "He works his work, I mine." How does he distinguish his work from his son's?
4. Pay attention to a) the rhythm, b) the arrangement of explosive and mellifluous sounds in the poem.
