The Lotos-Eaters" by Alfred Lord Tennyson is a poem about a group of mariners who come across a group of people living in a mythical land, eating the lotos fruit and living in a state of blissful forgetfulness. The poem explores the idea of esc
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The Lotos-Eaters is a poem by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, published in Tennyson's 1832 poetry collection. It was inspired by his trip to Spain with his close friend Arthur Hallam, where they visited the Pyrenees mountains. The poem describes a group of mariners who, upon eating the lotos, are put into an altered state and isolated from the outside world. The title and concept derives from the lotus-eaters in Greek mythology.