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peachygirl263 's review for:
Omeros
by Derek Walcott
Will write a full review once I’m done crying...
edit: Actual review time!!
Honestly, I would have never chosen a book like this if it weren't on the textbook list for my classes. I'm so incredibly glad that I did have the opportunity to read this, and I'm currently exploring more narratives in this style!
Omeros is a epic poem that revitalizes the genre and gives fresh life to the form of story telling that is normally associated with Greek gods and old white men. The tale of St. Lucia, an island that is simultaneously thriving and dying, elicits so many moments of sorrow and joy as we follow the native islanders that call the horned island home. Omeros tells multiple stories of slave trading and colonization, and how these ideas that are normally thought of in a historical sense continue to impact the narratives of those afflicted to this very day. Omeros discusses that facets of race, sex and privilege, and how they are impacted by a soaring economy that profits off the back of impoverished peoples who called the sandy shores of St. Lucia home first. The narrative offers metaphysical and moral implications to a very important question: If we attempt to create narratives off the suffering of others and we end up profiting while others go on struggling, did we ever create the proper narrative in the first place?
edit: Actual review time!!
Honestly, I would have never chosen a book like this if it weren't on the textbook list for my classes. I'm so incredibly glad that I did have the opportunity to read this, and I'm currently exploring more narratives in this style!
Omeros is a epic poem that revitalizes the genre and gives fresh life to the form of story telling that is normally associated with Greek gods and old white men. The tale of St. Lucia, an island that is simultaneously thriving and dying, elicits so many moments of sorrow and joy as we follow the native islanders that call the horned island home. Omeros tells multiple stories of slave trading and colonization, and how these ideas that are normally thought of in a historical sense continue to impact the narratives of those afflicted to this very day. Omeros discusses that facets of race, sex and privilege, and how they are impacted by a soaring economy that profits off the back of impoverished peoples who called the sandy shores of St. Lucia home first. The narrative offers metaphysical and moral implications to a very important question: If we attempt to create narratives off the suffering of others and we end up profiting while others go on struggling, did we ever create the proper narrative in the first place?