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Ulysses • 1842
I am part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ Gleams that untravell’d world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Experience shapes the self here. Everything the speaker has met becomes part of them, yet each new journey opens a glimpse of a world still unexplored. Its edge keeps retreating as one moves, so the wish to go further never quite ends.
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