‘The Lotos-Eaters’ is a poem by-

• Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem 'The Lotos Eaters'.
- The poem is based on an episode in Book 9 of Homer’s Odyssey.
- Odysseus’s sailors, returning home after the fall of Troy, are forced to land in a strange country after a strong wind propels them past the island of Cythera. The inhabitants, “the mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters,” are sustained solely on the fruit of the lotus plant.
- The sailors, too, eat the fruit and lose all desire to continue their journey.

• Lord Alfred Tennyson was a famous Victorian Poet.
- He is best known for his melodious language.
- He represented the Victorian Age.

• His famous poems:
- Oenone,
- Ulysses,
- Lotus Eaters,
- Locksley Hall,
- Tears Idle Tears,
- Tithonus,
- The Two Voices,
- The Lady of Shalott,
- Vision of Sin,
- Morte D'Arthur etc.

Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr M Mofizar Rahman and Britannica.