The Tuesday Poem: “The Lotos Eaters” (Excerpt) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Lotos Eaters (Excerpt)
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The full poem of The Lotos Eaters runs to ca. 14 stanzas so I have only give you an introduction to it here. Tennyson’s poem is informed by the homeward journey of Odysseus and his mariners from Troy and I have always enjoyed its powerful and evocative use of language in painting the seductive nature of the isle free from toil and the longing of the mariners to cease journeying and remain there. As with the best storytelling, the doubt cast on their wisdom is all in the subtext.
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