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Ulysses

We have chosen the famous mythical traveler Ulysses as our other role model for passion. In the works of Homer, Dante and Tennyson, Ulysses is depicted as a passionate voyager who “lusts for adventure.” In the Odyssey Homer’s Ulysses fervently states “The journey is the thing.” Claiming that “Each man delights in the work that suits him best,” Ulysses declares: “Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.” According to Tennyson’s Ulysses, “I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees [the sediment at the bottom of the bottle]; all times I have enjoy’d greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those that loved me, and alone.” He claims that he is driven by the desire “to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.”

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