"Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson

1. I think this poem is about the progression of life. I think the narrator is trying to tell the story of his life then convince the audience to take full advantage of their lives. I believe this because that's what the words mean to me.

2. "Death closes all: but something ere the end, 

Some work of noble note, may yet be done, " is the excerpt I chose. This stands out to me because it's saying that we all die eventually and that there's always going to still be things to do that will have to be left undone. And it's really sad, yet very accurate.