| Quote #4 But every hour is saved Earlier in the poem (20-21)
Ulysses described the ways in which he could forestall death by
continually moving; here he again refers to being "saved / From
that eternal silence," but he doesn't tell us how it happens.
Each "hour" that Ulysses is spared from death brings him "new
things," new adventures, etc. He implies that the possibility
for exploration is in the nature of life; whenever one doesn't
die, "new adventures" or "something more" appear of their own
accord. | Quote #5 And vile it were In the same way that death
and all the places that Ulysses wants to visit are conflated, so
here the knowledge Ulysses seeks is combined with his own
aspiration. "Like a sinking star" could refer to some fleeting
knowledge Ulysses wants, or to himself! The suggestion is that
the desire to explore "beyond the utmost bound of human thought"
leads to death and makes one a "sinking star." | Quote #6 Come
my friends "Newer world" is an interesting world; Ulysses might
mean a world that