Explanation:
I asked thee, “Give me immortality.”Then didst thou grant mine asking with a smile,Like wealthy men who care not how they give.
Answer: These lines have been taken from a famous dramatic monologue, "Tithonus" written Lord by Alfred Tennyson. Here Tithonus is recollecting what he desired from Aurora.
Tithonus is a very handsome and agile young man. The goddess of dawn, Aurora falls in love with him. She takes him to Zeus and begs for immortality for him. What she forgets to want is the everlasting youth for Tithonus. However, Zeus grants her prayer. Aurora keeps him with her. But with the passage of time, Tithonus grows old. Whereas he does not die like the average people on earth. Now he is miserable. He has lost his physical strength and passion. His blood does not glow at the sight of his dark eyes of Aurora. But Aurora is evergreen. She does not lose her beauty, charm, and youth. So she can live with old Tithonus no longer now. Hence Tithonus cries for a release from his accursed immortality. He wanted to be immortal. Aurora had fulfilled his prayer and favor. She granted him the favor or gift of immortality very generously. She was very liberal in this respect. She was then nobody else the rich who bestow gifts liberally without thinking.
In fact, Tithonus is regretting here very pathetically. His note of .. lamentation and strong complaint evokes sympathy in our hearts. But the poet has somewhat changed the myth in this respect.
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