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The Lotus Eaters are an English new wave band formed in 1981 in Liverpool. Their debut single, "The First Picture of You", became a hit in the UK and in continental Europe, notably France, Italy, Belgium and Spain.
And round about the keel with faces pale, Dark faces pale against that rosy flame, The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came. Branches they bore of that enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave. To each, but whoso did receive of them, And taste, to him the gushing of the wave.
In Greek mythology, the lotus-eaters ( Greek: λωτοφάγοι, translit. lōtophágoi) were a race of people living on an island dominated by the lotus tree, a plant whose botanical identity is uncertain.
Tennyson’s ‘The Lotos-eaters’ is based on a portion of Homer’s Odyssey in which Odysseus’s men are fed lotos plants and become mesmerized by the land onto which they have stumbled. The poem begins with Odysseus commanding his men to have “Courage.”
The mariners are greeted by the “mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters,” whose dark faces appear pale against the rosy sunset. These Lotos-eaters come bearing the flower and fruit of the lotos, which they offer to Odysseus’s mariners.
12 de dic. de 2023 · The Lotus-Eaters were a race of people who dwelt on an island in the Mediterranean Sea. Later sources have referred to this island as being near Libya. These people were called Lotus-Eaters because that’s what they did – they ate and drank food and beverages made from a lotus tree that grew on their island.
20 de jul. de 2023 · "The Lotus Eaters" is a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson inspired by an episode from Homer's "Odyssey." The poem centers around a group of sailors, presumably led by...
