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Walcott's poetry is characterized by its lyrical beauty, evocative imagery, and formal precision, drawing comparisons to T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats. He combines a deep understanding of Western literary tradition with a profound engagement with Caribbean folklore and oral storytelling.
His later collections include Tiepolo’s Hound (2000), The Prodigal (2004), Selected Poems (2007), White Egrets (2010), and Morning, Paramin (2016). In 1992, Walcott won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Derek Walcott was a Saint Lucian poet. He also worked as a playwright and won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. Explore his poetry with analysis.
Sea Grapes. By Derek Walcott. That sail which leans on light, tired of islands, a schooner beating up the Caribbean. for home, could be Odysseus, home-bound on the Aegean; that father and husband's. longing, under gnarled sour grapes, is. like the adulterer hearing Nausicaa's name. in every gull's outcry. This brings nobody peace. The ancient war.
Derek Walcott (1930-2017) was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1992, two years after the publication of his most ambitious and celebrated work, Omeros, an epic poem which draws on the Homeric tradition and relocates it in the voices and lives of the people of the Caribbean.
The 1992 Nobel Laureate in Literature Derek Walcott reads his poem ‘Sea Grapes’ from “Collected Poems 1948-1984”. The video was recorded at Harvard University in April, 2005. Two poems by Derek Walcott. Sea Grapes. That sail which leans on light, tired of islands, a schooner beating up the Caribbean. for home, could be Odysseus,
Prodigal, what were your wanderings about? The smoke of homecoming, the smoke of departure. The earth grew music and the tubers sprouted. to Sesenne's singing, rain-water, fresh patois. in a clay carafe, a clear spring in the ferns, and pure things took root like the sweet-potato vine. Over the sea at dusk, an arrowing curlew,
Derek Walcott. Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL OBE OCC (born 23 January 1930) is a Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is currently Professor of Poetry at the University of Essex.
Derek Walcott - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Born in 1930, in the West Indies, Derek Walcott received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.
1930 –. 2017. A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt. Of Africa. Kikuyu, quick as flies, Batten upon the bloodstreams of the veldt. Corpses are scattered through a paradise. Only the worm, colonel of carrion, cries: "Waste no compassion on these separate dead!"
