Continuing with some essays I wrote last semester, this one was also written for my English Literature class, this time about the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
As
we transitioned from learning about the Romantic Era and its poetry into
learning about the Victorian Era and the poetry produced in that time, one of
the poems that really struck me was “The Lotos-Eaters” by Alfred, Lord
Tennyson. The entire poem, with
its theme of wanting to give up, stand still and rest, I found really
fascinating, but I particularly connected with this stanza:
They
sat them down upon the yellow sand,
Between
the sun and moon upon the shore;
And
sweet it was to dream of Fatherland
Of child, and wide, and slave; but evermore
Most weary the wandering fields of
barren foam,
Then someone said, “We will return no
more”;
And
all at once they sang, “Our island home
Is far beyond the wave; we will no
longer roam.” (NAEL 1959)
The sentiment expressed in this excerpt
is one that I feel