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: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.