JOHN KEATS ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMANS'S HOMER

**NEED SUBSCRIPTIONS, Rate, Comment, PLEASE ** WORDS & LINKS HERE for this RECITATION: Stanley Pacion reads from one of his all-time, favorite sonnets, JOHN KEATS' ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER.
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KEATS, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer




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
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;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific--and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

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[StanleyPacion]

Thank you very much for your kind words. They do provide encouragement. Keats is one of my favorite poets in the English language. This particular sonnet caputres his excitement when he stays up all night reading Homer in translation. I have always felt its thrill.

[AidaKhanoom7]

Lovely...thank you!

[TorinMarch]

what is this about?! and why is there only a floating head?