On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

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"On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer" is a sonnet by John Keats that celebrates the transformative wonder he felt upon discovering Homer’s epics through George Chapman’s vigorous Elizabethan translation.

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instanceOf poem
sonnet
alludesTo George Chapman
Hernán Cortés
Homer
Pacific Ocean
stout Cortez standing upon a peak in Darien
author John Keats
celebrates Elizabethan vigor of Chapman’s translation
comparesExperienceTo astronomical discovery
geographical exploration
contrasts second-hand knowledge with direct experience
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstPublicationDate 1 December 1816
firstPublicationYear 1816
firstPublishedIn The Examiner
focusesOn reader’s emotional response to art
form Petrarchan sonnet
genre lyric poetry
inspiredBy reading Chapman’s translation of Homer aloud
language English
literaryDevice allusion
enjambment
imagery
metaphor
simile
literaryMovement Romanticism
meter iambic pentameter
openingLine Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold
partOf John Keats’s early poems
period early Romantic period
rhymeScheme ABBA ABBA CDCDCD
setIn imaginative landscapes
structure octave and sestet
subject George Chapman
surface form: George Chapman’s translation of Homer

Homer’s epics
theme awe at literary discovery
imaginative exploration
the sublime
transformative power of reading
tone ecstatic
reverent
usesSimile like some watcher of the skies
like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
writtenByAtAge 21

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John Keats notableWork On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer