tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910834.post8407617349021929205..comments2023-10-15T08:40:12.715-05:00Comments on Interdisciplinary World: Some Thoughts on MythologyTroy Camplinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515578686042143845noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910834.post-65447582466711159302011-02-03T05:43:27.003-06:002011-02-03T05:43:27.003-06:00Welcome to my blog! :-)Welcome to my blog! :-)Troy Camplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16515578686042143845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910834.post-86240218169323487242011-02-03T05:43:11.515-06:002011-02-03T05:43:11.515-06:00Since Cortez never saw the Pacific, it's quite...Since Cortez never saw the Pacific, it's quite relevant. He is arguing that his reading Chapman's Homer makes him feel like what the first European must have felt like upon seeing the Pacific. At the very least, he needed to have used someone who actually saw it.Troy Camplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16515578686042143845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910834.post-70731598370206571352011-02-03T05:37:07.304-06:002011-02-03T05:37:07.304-06:00I've just discovered your blog, which I am enj...I've just discovered your blog, which I am enjoying, but I'm afraid you've made a common mistake here. The point is not that Cortez was the first to see the Pacific - he wasn't. But <i>nor was Keats the first to read Homer</i>. The poem is not about discovery in the sense of being the first to find something, but personal discovery, an individual finding something great that he had not previously comprehended. Cortez would have been just as amazed to look on the Pacific whether or not it had previously been seen by some other European, and indeed millions of natives.Salemhttp://whyiamnot.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com