Withdrawal from an uncongenial world of escape either to death or more often, to an ideal dream world, is the theme of Tennysons:

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‘Withdrawal from an uncongenial world of escape either to death or more often, to an ideal dream world’, is the theme of Tennyson’s:

A	Ulysses
B	The Palace of Arts
C	The Lotos ____ Eaters
D	None of these

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -They stay there, at the island of the Lotos-Eaters, to live as “Gods together, careless of mankind”, which is an escapist vision for the sailors trying to get away from the hard everyday life at home. The theme of death is omnipresent in Tennyson’s poem.

Detailed explanation-2: -This line hits one of the big themes of the poem. For the Lotos-eating sailors, any kind of trouble or work or confusion or pain is worse than death. It would be better, they figure, to be dead than to have to do anything except lie around and dream.

Detailed explanation-3: -The intense beauty of the land of the Lotos-Eaters is clearly an allegory for the intense beauty of poetry itself.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

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