On first looking into Chapmans Homer
Read 'On first looking into Chapmans Homer' by 'John Keats' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
On first looking into Chapmans Homer by John Keats
MUCH have I travell'd in the realms of gold
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told 5
That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne:
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken; 10
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific¡ªand all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise¡ª
Silent upon a peak in Darien.
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