This is an examination of Derek Walcott's Omeros (1990) - the St. Lucian poet's longest work and the piece that secured his Nobel Laureate - that reveals the deep-seated bond between the root narratives of ancient Greece to the cultural products and practices of the contemporary Caribbean. It presents a detailed reading of Walcott's highly controversial attempt to craft a Caribbean master narrative. Callahan shows that the poem's most common figures are ancient Aeolic and Sapphic feet. Also common in calypso lyrics, these metrical features suggest an ambiguity where some critics have found a...