Armageddon is a contemporary epic poem about the major event of our
own time. Written in blank verse, it narrates the defining event
for civilisation today: the American President Bush's struggle
against the Islamic extremism of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, in
the course of which Bush transforms himself, the US and the world.
It follows the War on Terror from September 11, 2001 through the
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which some believe were illegally
waged for reasons of oil. Covertly supported by Iran, bin Laden is
shown as possessing at least 20 nuclear suitcase bombs (a purchase
confirmed by Hans Blix of the IAEA in 2004), some of which he plans
to explode simultaneously in 10 American cities - hence the title.
The poem presents all sides of the War on Terror and makes sense of
the first decade of the 21st century. Armageddon is Nicholas
Hagger's second poetic epic. It is the successor to his Overlord,
which was the first major poetic epic in the English language since
Milton's Paradise Lost. Overlord was about the Second World War
from D-Day to the dropping of the atomic bomb and also followed an
American hero, Eisenhower. Like Overlord, Armageddon is also in the
tradition of Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid, and its epic sweep
includes higher and lower worlds in the Universalist manner. Both
qualify as American epics, though written by an English poet. The
only other poet to have written two major poetic epics is Homer.
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