Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0393347273
ISBN13:9780393347272
Release Date:November 2013
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:112 Pages
Weight:0.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"
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Beautiful and deeply affecting
Published by Clara , 3 years ago
This book is a sort of translation of the Iliad--but it is also much more. Oswald takes each of the deaths in the original epic poem and isolates them, making their brutality and the effects they have on those connected with the soldiers much starker. The language is really beautiful and took my breath away. People who love the Iliad will find this version really interesting- it takes the epic and makes it an elegy.
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