A Study of Hero Archetype in Galway Kinnell’s The Book of Nightmares.

Abstract

This paper studies the hero archetype in the collection The Book of Nightmares.   Kinnell’s poems can be studied into hero archetypes which comprise of three stages.  They are separation or departure,  trials and victories of initiation,  and return and reintegration with society.  It studies the hero's journey to face several circumstances and later returns to the community.