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It's only superficially relevant here, but I love the poem, so I'll share it anyway: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, John Keats Much have I travell'd
by snakeboy 2y ago
It's only superficially relevant here, but I love the poem, so I'll share it anyway:
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, John Keats
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.
- phreeza 2y agoDid Cortez really land in Darien? I thought that was the site of the ill-fated Scottish attempt at setting up a colony.
- DiscourseFan 2y agowho gives a shit
- farleykr 2y agoNot a fan of discourse?
- DiscourseFan 2y agoI'm sick, so forgive me. But also, like, its a poem. I mean, of all the things to nitpick, the historical accuracy of poetry is probably the most banal.
- phreeza 2y agoIt wasn't meant as a nitpick, I was curious. The other reply was actually interesting.
- sdeer 2y agoIt was Balboa who led the first European expedition across isthmus of Panama and saw the Pacific Ocean and claimed it (yes,the whole Ocean) for Spain. Cortez to my knowledge never set foot in Panama. The Scottish colony was much later.
- snakeboy 2y agoTrue, but "stout Cortez" sounds better than "stout Balboa" ;)