Poetic Features of William Golding＇s Novels

Though he is unmistakably a serious writer dealing with the most serious moral issues, William Golding has no dread of rhetoric. He is drown to rather than deterred by poetry and his fiction always has a dense and often poetic verbal texture, in which metaphor and image work as they do in poetry, and enrich and modify the bare significance of the moral form. As a poetic novelist, in addition to,reviving a moribund novel with a new and exciting subject, he has also reinvigorated the language with a new and more eloquent mode of discourse.