There are two very effectual similes in the last six lines through which the writer’s feeling of wonder and his ecstatic joy are conveyed.
The metaphor is maintained throughout the poem with such expressions as “states and kingdoms” ‘western islands”, and “the wide expanse ruled by Homer”. Then felt I like some watcher of the skies Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
The beautiful planet of poetry is here called “the realms of gold” which is a wealthy and momentous phrase. Keats’s style is here marked by a profusion of remarkable metaphors and similes. This sonnet is, indeed, a piece of literary admiration in verse. The brunt they made on the young mind of Keats was enormously dominant.īut similarly is this poem a mark of reverence to Chapman’s brilliance in having rendered the Greek epics into English with eye-catching achievement. Homer’s epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are among the front-rank masterworks of world literature. The poem is a shimmering deliberation to the poet genius of Homer. Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,Īnd many goodly states and kingdoms seen
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