I Am a Part of All That I Have Met — Tennyson Quote Journal

You start writing about last Tuesday. Two pages on, you're describing a fourth-grade teacher.

"I am a part of all that I have met;"
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Ulysses," line 18. Written 1833; published in Poems, 1842. We check every line against a primary source.

Tennyson wrote this at twenty-four, weeks after his closest friend died. He said the poem held his "need of going forward."

Write down who's in you. Begin anywhere.

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