 Critic E. J. <unk> argued in 1954 that Ulysses is without faith in an afterlife , and that Tennyson uses a " method of <unk> " to affirm the need for religious faith by showing how Ulysses ' lack of faith leads to his neglect of kingdom and family . <unk> regards the poem as " <unk> " in Tennyson 's canon , but finds that the poem 's meaning resolves itself when this <unk> is understood : it illustrates Tennyson 's conviction that " <unk> religious sanctions and ' submitting all things to desire ' leads to either a <unk> or a brutal <unk> of responsibility and ' life ' . " 
