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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Predicate Object
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’s translation of Homer ⓘ
linked to: George Chapman

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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