John Keats uses various techniques in his compositions to evoke a reader's response to his theme. 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's theme in the poem is that when a person reads Homer, he or she becomes a member of a company of people who have discovered Homer. ...
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." ... Each stanza of the poem contains a certain theme that will have the power to persuade in a different way, thus the reader's attention is grabbed with the various emotions disp...
