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Question
What is the first stage of a human’s life?
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Solution
The first stage of human life is “infant”. The babe in the nurse’s arms pukes and mewls.
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Introduction
The poem ‘Ulysses’ is a dramatic monologue that contains 70 lines of blank verse. Ulysses, the King of Ithaca, gathers his men together to prepare for the journey and exhorts them not to waste their time left on earth. Ulysses has grown old, having experienced many adventures at the battle of Troy and in the seas. After returning to Ithaca, he desires to embark upon his next voyage. His inquisitive spirit is always looking forward to more and more of such adventures.
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Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea...
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… I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and
know not me.
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Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move
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Little remains: but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
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How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
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....you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil;
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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