...languor pervades the whole, produced in large measure by the tone-color of the prevailing sounds : In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the...

...the first two stanzas of Tennyson's " Lotos-Eaters," and fancy may fill the place of experience. " In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it...afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoont Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And...

...And the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest 53 THE LOTOS-EATERS. •COURAGE ! ' he said, and pointed toward the land, 'This mounting...like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above tie valley stood the moon; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and...

...every shower, descend innumerable streams ; it is a veritable realization of the Lotuseaters' dream : " In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it...swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full faced above the valley stood the moon, And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the...

...described, may here be illustrated by an example, from Tennyson's " Lotos Eaters." " ' Courage ! ' he said, and pointed toward the land, ' This mounting...came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. AH round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Fult'iaced...

...warily, Singing airily, Standing about the charmed root. (i833) LXXXI THE LOTOS-EATERS " COURAGE ! " he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting...dream. Full-faced' above the valley stood the moon; lAnd like a downward smoke, the slender stream {Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem....

...sad-sweet dream represent, as it were, the fate of heroic themes when they enter Tennyson's poetic world. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing...downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff tp fall and pause and fall did seem. The use of natural images to achieve a dream landscape is again...

..."afternoon" and repeated "land," instead of another word to rhyme with its occurrence two lines back — "In the afternoon they came unto a land / In which it seemed always afternoon" — herald a coming lassitude and abandon, as if the description itself were like a whiff of the narcotic...

...grooves of change. (1. 181—182) BLPL; EBEV; FaBoBe; FaFP; NAEL-2; OAEL-2 The Lotus-Eaters 80 "Courage!" y as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman...sullen, sour, And not obedient to his honest will, What (1. 1—4) 81 A land where all things always seemed the same! And round about the keel with faces pale....

...has his own humor, and original rhythm, music and images. How ring his humorsome lines in the ear,— "In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon."55 The Old Year's Death56 pleases me most. But why I speak of him now is because he had...