The Lotos Eaters
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
1. What type of poem is “The Lotos Eaters”?
Ans: “The Lotos Eaters” is a lyric poem having a narrative section of forty-five lines at the beginning.
2. What inspired Lord Alfred Tennyson to write the poem "The Lotos Eaters"?
Ans: Homer’s epic Odyssey inspired Lord Alfred Tennyson to write the poem "
3. On what incident is the poem "The Lotos Eaters" based?
Ans: The poem "The Lotos Eaters" is based upon a short incident described in Odyssey by Homer. The incident tells of the years-long effort of Odysseus and his sailors to return to Ithaca.
4. What is the source of the poem "The Lotos Eaters"? [NU 2012, 2015]
Ans: The Odyssey by Homer is the source of the poem "The Lotos Eaters".
5. What is the setting of the poem "The Lotos Eaters"?
Ans: The setting of the poem "The Lotos Eaters" is probably an island near North Africa.
6. Why did it seem always afternoon in the land of the Lotos Eaters?
Ans: In the land of the Lotos Eaters, it always seemed to be the afternoon because the entire atmosphere was languid, the moon was visible above the valley, and the sun was lingering before setting in the west.
7. Which is a land of stream?
Ans: The lotos island is a land of streams.
8. Who greeted the sailors when they reached the Lotos-Land?
Ans: The “mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters,” greeted the sailors when they reached the Lotos-Land.
9. Who are the Lotos eaters? [NU 2016]
Ans: Lotos eaters are the inhabitants of Lotos Island. They eat lotos fruits.
10. How do the inhabitants of the Lotos Land pass their time?
Ans: The inhabitants of the Lotos Land pass their time in physical and mental inaction caused by the consumption of the lotos fruits.
11. Why do the people in the Lotos-Land always feel dreamy?
Ans: The people in the Lotos-Land always feel dreamy because of the intoxicating effect of the Lotos fruit.
12. How was the appearance of the inhabitants of the Lotos Island?
Ans: The inhabitants of the Lotos Island were mild eyed and melancholic.
13. What did the inhabitants of Lotus-land carry to the sailors?
Ans: The inhabitants of Lotus-land carried branches of lotos stem laden with flower and fruit to give them to the sailors.
14. What is the lotos?
Ans: The lotos is a kind of plant that produces lotos fruits that make the eaters sleepy and dreamy. It has an opium like influence on the eaters.
15. What happened to the men who ate the lotos at the land of the 'Lotos Eaters'? [NU 2015]
Ans: The men who ate the lotos, at the land of the 'Lotos Eaters' were unwilling to go home; they wanted to stay there with the lotus-eating people.
16. What is the effect of the lotos on the sailors?
Ans: The effect of ‘lotos’ on the sailors is that of total inaction. After eating the ‘lotos’, they start thinking of staying on the island forever without returning to their homeland any more.
17. Who sang the choric song in "The Lotos Eaters"? [NU 2013]
Ans: In "The Lotos-Eaters" the fellow mariners of Ulysses sang the choric song.
18. What does the choric song express?
Ans: The choric song expresses the philosophy of inaction.
19. Why did the sailors decide not to return home? [NU 2014]
Ans: The sailors decided not to return home because the sea and the journey across the sea seemed hateful to them after eating the lotos fruit.
20. How are gods represented in ‘The Lotos Eaters’?
Ans: In ‘The Lotos Eaters’, gods are presented as callous and cruel to mankind. They are ‘hard to reconcile’.
21. What is galingale? [NU 2012]
Ans: Galingale is a sedge with an aromatic rhizome. It is used in perfumes.
22. What is myrrh-bush?
Ans: Myrrh-bush is the bush of an evergreen plant which is a source of gum or resin, aroma and medicine
23. What are the pilot-stars?
Ans: Pilot-stars are the stars that serve as a compass to ships sailing on the seas.
24. How does the poem "The Lotos Eaters" end?
Ans: The poem "The Lotos Eaters" ends with the resolution of the mariners not to wander anymore.
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