Question

what is the source of the poem The Lotus Eater?

Answer 1

"The Lotous Eater" 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 lotous, are put into an altered state and isolated from the outside world.