English, 23.09.2019 01:30 mhortin

What is the major theme in this excerpt from "ulysses" by alfred, lord tennyson?
how dull it is to pause, to make an end,
to rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
as though to breathe were life! life piled on life
were all too little, and of one to me
little remains; but every hour is saved
from that eternal silence, something more,
a bringer of new things; and vile it were
for some three suns to store and hoard myself,
and this grey spirit yearning in desire
to follow knowledge like a sinking star,
beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
a.
the yearning for new experience
b.
the desire for a peaceful life
c.
the desire for material gain
d.
the longing for popularity

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