[New-Poetry] the ethics of attention in Derek Walcott’s Omeros.

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Omeros and Attention
Posted by luc8 on November 3rd, 2007 
Nearing what is Human:
Poetry, proximity and the ethics of attention in Derek Walcott’s Omeros. 


In what follows I will be focusing on the work of St Lucian poet Derek Walcott. In a reading of the opening passage of his epic Omeros, I will focus on the notion of attention, constituted by Heideggerian notions of nearness, care, and letting-be. I will be seeking ways in which these poems undergo, and impose upon us a pre-rational encounter similar to that suggested by Levinas - an encounter located in attention, in immediate proximity, but with the additional movement of letting-be, or what Heidegger referred to as Gelassenheit: the act of nearing without seizing or possessing.


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