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On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer, is made of two distinct parts. In the first part of Keats's poem the speaker is expressing his experiences prior to reading Chapman's translation of Homer. At the beginning of the poem the speaker says, "Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold..."(Keats). The second section of the poem provides comparisons that contrast the speaker's revelatory experience after reading Chapman's translation of Homer. Chapman's translations are alive with expressions, which brings forth various explanations about Homer. The speaker in Keats poem expresses how intense his new experiences are after reading the translations. The speaker uses two comparisons to explain his emotions after discovering Chapman's translation of Homer. These two comparisons are extremely different, even though both deal with discovery (Dilworth). It is obvious that the speaker has second thoughts on his first comparison because he speaks of the second in more emotion and detail. After reading Chapman's translation of Homer he compares this revelatory experience to, "Then I felt like some watcher of the skies...When a new planet swims into his ken" (Keats). This comparison explains that reading these tran
The feeling of making progress in reading poems is an incredible feeling. The second comparison is also the climax of the poem. As I made more and more progress in my dissecting of poems, I felt a feeling of excitement and enthusiasm about what I was reading. This is a touching poem because the image changes from a contentment of the "well traveled speaker" to the wonder of discovery of Homer. Understanding how complex an ocean is, we can identify the speaker's change of amazement in the poem. The experience that I am comparing to the speaker in Keats's poem, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer is how I have learned to go about reading poems. The thought of reading new poems made me feel incompetent and confused. He star'd at the Pacific-and all his men. slations is like finding and exploring a new planet. Work CitedINTERNET:Department of English at University of Toronto. This something amazing was, "I finally understand this poem and what the speaker is feeling during his experiences and discoveries.
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