Memorial : A Version of Homer's Iliad EPUB
by Alice Oswald
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In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad-the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen-in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of whom are little more than names but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably and unforgotten in the copious retrospect of Homer's glance.
The resulting poem is a war memorial and a profoundly responsive work that gives new voice to Homer's level-voiced version of the world.
Through a mix of narrative and musical repetition, the sequence becomes a meditation on the loss of human life.
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- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date:10/09/2012
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- ISBN:9780393089813
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date:10/09/2012
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- ISBN:9780393089813