In comparing the two poems one can notice the use of iambic pentameter, which was first innovated by William Shakespeare and his sonnets as well his plays. ... 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. ... Lord Alfred varies from Keats in that he tells of a story in which he comes across a new land with his crew that...

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