... World War Longley Michael Seven Seas character in Walcott’s Omeros Heaney Seamus lyric poetry Gorgythion war Christopher Logue Michael Longley Derek Walcott Homeric simile epic simile Epic similes seem easy enough to recognize. And it is generally taken for granted that they maintain...

..., experiential sight and locus of evil and death in the poem: here blackness and the sunlight figured in epic similes are focal. Concentrating next on Light in Book III and moving out to make connections with Night, twilight, and darkness in heaven and Chaos, the argument focuses on the relation of Night...

...This chapter unites the topics of style and genre (the twin themes of volume one) in a discussion of Milton’s use of the epic simile. The chapter traces the development of two opposite yet interconnected theories of how similes work: Addison’s theory (taken from Boileau) that epic similes offer...