So you are asking which two words in this poem show us
            that Homer is present in the poem?  If so, I would say "deep-brow'd Homer" indicates
            that Homer is present.  Other than that, there are many allusions to Homer and to the
            style in which Homer (if he existed) wrote.
For example, we
            see the presence of Homer when the poet speaks of "bards" who owe their allegiance to
            "Apollo." This is an allusion to Homer since he was a bard who was Greek and who would
            have possibly been loyal to Apollo.  We see the phrase "western islands," which
            presumably refers to islands of the sort that Odysseus would have visited on his way
            home to Ithaka.
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