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: -The Lotos-Eaters, poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published in the collection Poems (1832; dated 1833).

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The theme of death is omnipresent in Tennyson’s poem. While on the surface it is not explicit, there are many references to death in The Lotos-Eaters, especially in the section of the Choric Song.

Detailed explanation-5: -Summary. Tennyson’s ‘The Lotos-eaters’ is based on a portion of Homer’s Odyssey in which Odysseus’s men are fed lotos plants and become mesmerized by the land onto which they have stumbled. The poem begins with Odysseus commanding his men to have “Courage.” They will soon find a shorn on which to land.