Walcott, in this epic, depicts the feeling of rootlessness, frustration, and identity crisis among modernity-led St. Lucia is not an exception vis-à-vis the effects of Modernity. Therefore, in the era of capitalism and globalization, non-Western countries seek for an alternative to Western modernity. But Western modernity cannot accumulate the ethos of non-Western countries because of cultural differences and different sets of values and beliefs they possess. Moreover, he indicates over the significance of returning to one’s traditional lifestyle as it is the way that upholds one’s identity and existence.īy modernity, we understand Euro/American or Western modernity that has been built as the canonical structure of modernity throughout the world. Also, through the employment of common people, he emphasizes on the celebration of the beauty of small moments of everyday life not affected by modernity. Lucia, created by the history of wars and slavery, Walcott intends to travel back to his ancestors where he can gain necessary wisdom and experience in order to initiate cultural renewal as a part of cultural healing among the wounded St. By bringing mythical references of Trojan War through the characters like Philoctete, Hector, Helen and Achille, and by presenting the wounded history of St. Lucian identity and to show that as present is connected to past, people are connected to their ancestral roots. Lucia, and structures his epic resembling Trojan myth for the formation of St. As an attempt to preserve Caribbean culture, Derek Walcott ( 1990), in Omeros, especially focuses St.
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