“The Lotos-Eaters”
The time period of “The Lotos-Eaters” comes at the end of the Victorian era with uncertain
change in the air, and the usefulness of the new Industrial Revolution Era was uncertain to
society. Tennyson like many poets of his day are bring light to the problems in society and his
own desperate past to which returning to their home land of Ithaca from war in Troy, but actually
about the transition from the Victorian Era to the Industrial Revolution Era and the problems
associated with it.
The author uses the imagery of a mystical Greek Hero Ulysses and his ship mariners to
represent societies attitude and struggles in light of the pace and chaos associated with the
reform. The negative aspects of the Industrialization reform was its environmental impact, the
speed upon the lifestyle change taking place and the fact that much of the political reform
policies were not established yet. The author was writing about abandoning the rural life style of
the Victorian Era which is represented by the island of the Lotos plants, and the “people”
(mariners) staying on the rural land as being the Lotos-Eaters. .
The Narrator says, “Courage!” (1352) As he points, speaking of a place, being the Victoria Era,
Where the life style was much slower pace the inhabitants take time from their labor to rest.
Courage! he said, and pointed towards the land,
This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon. (1352)
A land where all things always seemed the same!
And round about the keel with faces pale,
Dark faces pale against the rosy flame,
The mild-eyed mela...
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...nges with there problems along with his own reflection in “The Lotos-
Eaters.” Tennyson utilized literary elements of symbolism, imagery, and metaphor in the
composing of this poem. This was written after the death of his very closed and dear friend;
during the time when for ten years he would not allow his works to be released. This is
considered to be just one of his best works.
Works Cited
Works Cited
Tennyson, A. , http://wiki.deltamualpha.org/w/Tennyson%27s_Reaction_to_the_Victorian_Era
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Tennyson, Lord Alfred, “The Lotos-Eaters.” Norton Introduction to Literature. Ed.
Allison Booth and Kelly J. Mays, 10th. ed. New York: W.W. Norton
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