...told, Which deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his Demesne; Yet could I never judge what Men could mean; 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 wond'ring eyes He star'd...

...bards injealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I heen told That deep-broived Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Thenfelt I lilie some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or liln'...

...Which deep brow'd Homer ruled as his Demesne; Yet could I never judge what Men could mean, .I .ill 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 wond'ring eyes He star'd...

...relation to the responses of others: 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. . . . (5-8) These lines suggest that what Keats comes to understand by way of Chapman's translation...

...that happens, they probably feel a bit like "stout Cortez" in the famous poem by John Keats:* . . . 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. (Never mind that Keats...