Travel stories appear repeatedly throughout the expanse of literature; these sagas include the stories of Gilgamesh, King Arthur, and, most recently, The Lord of the Rings. Derek Walcott's poem “The Schooner Flight” initially seems out of place among these growing legends of heroism and danger, but upon closer examination the poem flourishes as a postmodern retelling and then deconstruction of the ancient heroic journey. The poem is a celebration of Greek mythology, a disruptive force against established binaries, and a question of what constitutes identity. The construction of the poem represents a contradiction, since it is a Homeric pastiche but challenges the very nature of the usual heroic journey. However, this contradiction is actually central to understanding identity within “The Schooner Flight.” Derek Walcott's poetry embodies postmodern techniques by composing a transitory narrative that constructs an homage to the epic journey and at the same time breaks it down to reveal the breakdown of grand narrative and identity composition. Homer's Odyssey and Walcott's "The Flight of the Schooner" show striking similarities, and since Walcott's poem is a postmodern piece, these similarities can be attributed to the postmodern method of pastiche, which is “like parody, imitation of a particular mask, speech in a dead language: but it is a neutral practice of such mimicry, without ulterior motives of parody, amputated of the satirical impulse” (Rosa 18). In “The Schooner Flight,” the speaker, Shabine, states, “either I am nobody, or I am a nation” (Walcott 43). This statement refers to a moment in the Odyssey where Odysseus uses a pseudonym to deceive the Cyclopes, stating, "My name is Nobody" (Homer 486). These are parallel... to the center of the sheet... seph. The hero with a thousand faces. 3rd ed. Novato: New World Library, 2006. Print.Hannabuss, Stuart. "Lyotard and postmodern knowledge". Aslib Acts. 49.8 (1997): 217-224. Network. 6 April 2014. Homer. The Odyssey. Trans. Ian Johnston. Virginia: Richer Resource Publications, 2006. Web.Johnston, John. “Postmodern theory/postmodern narrative.” Clio. 16.2 (1987): 139-158. Network. 8 April 2014. “nostos”. Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Network. 8 April 2014. “patois”. The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English. Oxford University Press, 2002. Web. 10 April 2014. Rose, Margaret A. “Postmodern Pastiche.” British Journal of Aesthetics. 31.1 (1991): 26-38. Network. April 6, 2014. Walcott, Derek. “The schooner flight”. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors, Volume 2. 9th ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. 447-448. Press.