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This 3 page paper discusses the historical discoveries Plunkett makes in the poem "Omeros," and how they relate to a sense of homecoming. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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not. Walcott is of mixed race, and many of his poems deal with his seeming inability to find a place for himself in either the black world or the white;
he remains forever an outsider. This is also why many of his works deal, at least in part, with the idea of homecoming, or settling down, or finding ones place
in the world. The poem is strikingly original, but it has "echoes" from other works. The title, Omeros, is the Greek word for "Homer" the great poet of the Iliad
and Odyssey. At one point, Walcott says that Plunkett feared one spot on the island: "It was a place where an ancient fear / increased as he neared it. Holes
of boiling lava / bubbled in the Malebolge" (Walcott, 1990, p. 59). The line is interesting, but much more so if the reader knows that "Malebolge" is the name Dante
gave to the Eighth Circle of Hell in his poem, the Inferno. Now the idea of his fear is increased greatly by the knowledge that he sees part of the
island as the pit of hell. But how many casual readers know that? A few lines later, Walcott refers to the "lime-pits of Auschwitz" (Walcott, 1990, p. 59). For most
readers, the reference will be obvious, but for young people for whom the Second World War and its atrocities seem unreal, it may not have the immediate resonance it does
for others. This is a poem that requires work. Plunketts presence on the island, and his interest in history, seems largely tied up with his experience as a military man.
He is white and an Englishman, but he seems uncomfortable in his skin the same was Walcott does. All the characters, in fact, seem to be struggling to find some
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