Selected PoetryA selection of the poetry of Derek Walcott, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature. The nature of memory and the creative imagination, the history, politics and landscape of the West Indies, Walcott's loves and marriages and his enduring awareness of time and death, are recurring themes. |
Contents
A Careful Passion 7 DEER 1 2222 2227 | 9 |
Veranda | 23 |
Love in the Valley | 36 |
Chapter 1 | 42 |
Chapter 15 i ii iii | 58 |
Sea Canes | 132 |
Common terms and phrases
Adam's Song affirmation Allegre almond Anna Anse La Raye blue bright brown cadence canes Caribbean Castaway CHAPTER child Cold Spring Harbour dark dead death Derek Walcott Dooryard dream drizzle dusk earth echoes edge enduring English exile Extract eyes final verse flesh Flock Forest of Europe Frederiksted gabilan green Gregorias grey hand Hawk heart herons human iambic pentameter IAN MCDONALD imagination iron islands John Figueroa Joseph Brodsky Lampfall last line last verse leaves light living Mandelstam meaning metaphor metre mind moved Nearing Forty night Notice Oddjob Osip Mandelstam palms Parades pentameter phrase poem ends poem Walcott poem's poet poet affirms poet's poetry rain reference rhyme Salybia Samuel Palmer sand Schooner Flight sense silence snow stoicism stone Sundays T. S. Eliot theme thunder trees turn twilight Veranda Walcott writes Walcott's poem walk West Indian wind winter