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Selected Poems

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1830

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Dead Poets Society · 1989 · Neil Perry · The cave

Neil in the cave: Tennyson's Ulysses

"Ulysses" dates to 1833. Its last line, "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield," is the one every guidance office poster has borrowed.

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