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Putting Music to Tennyson’s “Ulysses”

By Deborah Stokol

The song uses as lyrics the highlighted section of the fourth stanza. Poem by A. L. Tennyson, 1833. Music by Deborah Stokol, April 22, 2012 Recorded, sung, and played by Deborah Stokol (“hard roads” sound on Alesis Q-88), May 17, 2012 Ulysses Ulysses It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an agèd... »

A Letter to Students on Why We Read The Odyssey

By Deborah Stokol

I’ve been full-time substitute teaching English at Harvard-Westlake, my Alma mater, for six weeks now, lecturing on The Odyssey and covering Creative Writing. A few of my 9th graders have asked my why we read the epic piece, and I thought I’d write them a letter response. Here it is: — 4 March, 2010 To my dear... »