Analysis Of Keat's "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" And "On Seeing The Elgin Marbles"
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Analysis of Keat's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" and "On Seeing the
John Keat's poems, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, and On Seeing the
Elgin Marbles for the First Time, express an irresistible, poetical imagination.
They convey a sense of atmosphere to the reader. In comparison t ....
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.... realized the wonders of these things until
reading Chapman's translation of Homer. Crossing many western islands bards
have sung about, he never was able to comprehend their true serene nature until
reading man's wondrous words. This narration explains that though these were
sights well visited , their beauty and Keats imagination kept them alive.
Having read Chapman's translation til dawn with his teacher, he was so moved he
wrote this his first great poem and mailed it by ten A.M. that da ....
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