The Lotos-Eaters Themes

"The Lotus-eaters" is all about a place. Sure, it deals with feelings and legends and wacky plants, but it spends a lot of time just describing the enchanted land of the Lotos-eaters. We hear all a...

Time is really screwy in "The Lotus-Eaters." The land of the Lotos-eaters seems to be stuck in some kind of endless afternoon, and the speakers of the poem are obsessed with eternity, death, and en...

The world looks different to each one of us. That might seem obvious, but it's a pretty big deal for literature. If we all have our own private reality, one of the ways we can talk about that reali...

There's a lot of death imagery in "The Lotus-Eaters." Maybe it doesn't jump out at you at first, but as you comb back through, you notice that the sailors seem a little bit obsessed with death. Som...

"The Lotus-Eaters" takes place in a strange and exotic spot, but there's also a lot of talk about home. The big problem in this poem is that the sailors don't want to sail anymore, and they would h...