Omeros (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Derek Walcott
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Epic
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: History, Caribbean, Mythology or myths, Blacks, Race, Poetry or poets, Poverty or poor people, Human race, Native Americans or American Indians, Islands, Fate or fatalism, Heroes or heroism
- Locales: St. Lucia, West Indies
The Poem
Omeros is a searching, evocative 325-page modern epic poem. It is searching in the sense that it has a mission: to right the wrongs of history by illuminating shadowed chapters of events in the lives of ignored or victimized races and individuals. It is evocative in the sense that it is sophisticated, multilayered, complexly symbolic, and artfully musical. It is also vigorous human drama. Largely on the basis of its publication—but also in recognition of earlier published poetry and drama—its mixed-race author, born on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia and...
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