Reasons for Tennyson's Mariners Preferring Death to Worldly Life.
Today's blog is in response to some of the fine queries RPresta has raised on Tennyson's Lotos-eaters. She asks about the mariners "Do they wish death, or do they wish an end to boredom? And is Death any better? Or is boredom Death"? What could be the reason/s? (perhaps there are answers but they... Sign in to see full entry.