Walcott's Omeros: Revitalization of Wounded Caribbeans
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
| Author: | Rahman Mostafiz | ISBN: | 9783730991909 |
| Publisher: | BookRix | Publication: | March 22, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Rahman Mostafiz |
| ISBN: | 9783730991909 |
| Publisher: | BookRix |
| Publication: | March 22, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
While writing this epic, Walcott adopts and transforms elements from Pound's The Cantos, Eliot's The Waste Land and Crane's The Bridge. He uses pseudo-Dantean verse, Sapphic prosody, Homeric sensibility and Virgilian methodology, which does not show his inaptness of aesthetic purity of writing epic, but rather shows his attempt to set a new trend in literary modernism. I have defined this new trend as polyglossic epic which I will demonstrate in this book.
While writing this epic, Walcott adopts and transforms elements from Pound's The Cantos, Eliot's The Waste Land and Crane's The Bridge. He uses pseudo-Dantean verse, Sapphic prosody, Homeric sensibility and Virgilian methodology, which does not show his inaptness of aesthetic purity of writing epic, but rather shows his attempt to set a new trend in literary modernism. I have defined this new trend as polyglossic epic which I will demonstrate in this book.
