In Keats's poem, "On first looking into Chapman's Homer" depicts Keats's emotions and feelings after being read Chapman's Elizabethan translation of the Odyssey. ... Keats has done much exploring but he has never explored Homer. Keats compares reading Homer to be equivalent to discovering a new planet. ... He does this by turning the event of reading Chapman's Homer into one that is equal to the exploration of the pacific, or the movement of planets. ... Keats's theme in the poem is that when a person reads Homer, he or she becomes a member of a company of people ...

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The first poem I have chosen is The Lotos-Eaters by Lord Alfred Tennyson, and the second poem I have chosen is On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats. ... The Lotos-Eaters is much longer than that of On First Looking into Chapman's Homer and after further review one finds that Lord Alfred Tennyson doesn't use the common Elizabethan Sonnet format. ... Keats discusses the translation of Homer's Odyssey done by Chapman and how it changed his view of the world. ... It seems as though Lord Alfred and his crew became somewhat attached to this land, calling it th...

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There is no home-coming for the man who draws near them unawares...for with their high clear song the Sirens bewitch him, as they sit there in a meadow piled high with the mouldering skeletons of men, whose withered skin still hangs upon their bones" (Odyssey, Book 12, ll. 39ff trans. Rieu/Jones) This is a warning to the great adventurer Odysseus from the mythological epic poem by Homer called the "Odyssey." ...

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The loss of family, home, and wealth are all elements of that one essential action. ... Aristotle felt that the Odyssey is the ultimate example of "true drama". Homer's heroes, of whom Aristotle thinks so highly, are all on physical quests, (defeating their enemies, going home, etc.). ... The emotional quest is alien to Homer's characters because of the Greek's lack of true belief in one supreme being, as evidenced by the learned folk of the time. ...

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The ancient Greeks had a huge impact on western civilization. They have made major contributions to the world. They have done this through politics/democracy, the arts, literature, philosophy, science/math and war/military. To this day we see many of their practices still in us. Many countries ...

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