... after the publication of Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, scientists were questioning about the exactness of the Bible and what the Christians believed. The Victorians were famous for their passion for morality. They did not like extreme feeling. So, in short, they were very conservative. In this connection it may well be mentioned that Tennyson's poetry, keeping pace with the Victorian age, dealt often with the doubts and difficulties of the age in which the old religious sanctions and the traditional assumption about man's nature and destiny were increasingly called into questions; it dealt with them, moreover, as the intimate personal problems of a sensitive and troubled individual inclined to melancholy. The conflict in the age created restlessness in the society. This very feeling is presented throughout the poem through Ulysses whom the poet has presented/used as his mouthpiece. Ulysses is always in a state of restlessness. The conflict ...

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