"It may be we shall touch the happy isles...the great Achilles,who we know" ---locate the lines and explain the allusions involved in 'Happy Isles' and 'Achilles'.---Explain (Ulysses)
These lines are extracted from Victorian poet Alfred lord Tennyson's Ulysses in 63-64 lines. The story recalled the great epics of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and mighty characters- Ulysses and Achilles. In the poem, the speaker Ulysses said of Heaven and Achilles to his best friend by the touch of the poet's poetic sensation.
"Happy Isles"means the islands of the blessed, a place where big- time Greek Heroes like Achilles enjoyed perpetual summer but now he died. Achilles was the mighty character of Iliad who came back the honour of Greece in the War of Troy. Here in the poem, Ulysses realises that he and his companions might die but would feel peace with that. If they die, they might even get to go to heaven and visit their old pal Achilles.
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