ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Lotos-Eaters is a poem by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, published in Tennyson’s 1832 poetry collection. It was inspired by his trip to Spain with his close friend Arthur Hallam, where they visited the Pyrenees mountains.

Detailed explanation-2: -This poem is divided into two parts: the first is a descriptive narrative (lines 1–45), and the second is a song of eight numbered stanzas of varying length (lines 46–173). The first part of the poem is written in nine-line Spenserian stanzas, so called because they were employed by Spenser in The Faerie Queene .

Detailed explanation-3: -The best-known poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, included “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and “Crossing the Bar.” His longer works included In Memoriam, inspired by his grief over the untimely death of a friend, and Idylls of the King, based on Arthurian legend.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Lotos-Eaters, poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published in the collection Poems (1832; dated 1833). The poem is based on an episode in Book 9 of Homer’s Odyssey.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Lotos-Eaters by Alfred Lord Tennyson is a poem full of references to death, dreams and sleep. Also music seems to be something comforting for the sailors and appears in the poem quite a lot. This can be connected with the mariners of the poem being unhappy in the world they live in, the place they call home.