Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,    And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;    Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told    That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne:    Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies    When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes    He stared at the Pacific—and all his men Look’d at each other with a wild surmise—    Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,    And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;    Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told    That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne:    Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies    When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes    He stared at the Pacific—and all his men Look’d at each other with a wild surmise—    Silent, upon a peak in Darien." in the context of "John Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
• The Examiner (1 December 1816); Poems (1817)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.