Trauma Writing In Omeros

Derek Walcott has created more than 30 plays and published more than 10 collections of poems in his life.Most of his works reflect the historical and colonial problems in the Caribbean.His most famous poem,Omeros,was published in 1990.By rewriting Homer’s epic,he recounted ancient Greece,and creatively showed the Caribbean national spirit with post-colonial implications such as trauma and healing.This paper combines trauma theory with narratology,starting from the trauma writing in Omeros,using the historical method,through the analysis of the symbolic process of trauma-healing,comes to a conclusion that Walcott’s postcolonial epic rewrites the trauma history,and through the prediction of the positive future of healing,reveals the birth of the pluralistic and inclusive Caribbean conceived by Walcott.With the symbolic structure of trauma-healing,Walcott represented the world’s colonial trauma of the small island of Saint Lucia,recounting the group creation of the island for hundreds of years,and more importantly,the tenacious and immortal vitality that burst out from the scars,gathering the hybrid ethnic groups of different languages,histories and cultures to create a Caribbean "imagined community".