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A POST COLONIAL TREATISE ON SELECTED POEMS OF DEREK WALCOTT

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“Memory that yearns to join the center, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the God” – Derek Walcott Derek Walcott (1930-2017), a Caribbean poet and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992, published his first collection of poetry at the age of fourteen that is full of beautiful and rich landscapes of the Caribbean Islands. As Walcott understood his surroundings, he understood that the identity of a West Indian man was fraught with racial and colonial tensions. In his work, he confronts the conflicts of his European and African ancestry. The prime concern in Walcott’s poetry is to find out the various ways of the making of identity in the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean that is found in the complex connections between Caribbean identities and the Caribbean Sea and landscape. The natives were homeless, brought to an entirely unfamiliar environment, and forced to work. They were deprived from communicating with one another. The sole purpose of this research paper is to bring out Derek Walcott’s feeling of polarity his dilemma which tears him between ‘Africa’, his indigenous country, and the English tongue and culture he loved because it gave him a voice in the post-colonial world. Walcott’s expression of ambivalence, duality, hybridity and postcolonial dilemma will be studied in context of five of his poems viz. Saint Lucia’s First Communion, White Magic, Elsewhere, Ruins of a Great House, and Far Cry from Africa.

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A POST COLONIAL TREATISE ON SELECTED POEMS OF DEREK WALCOTT

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"A POST COLONIAL TREATISE ON SELECTED POEMS OF DEREK WALCOTT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 4, page no.1308-1312, April-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1804436.pdf

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"A POST COLONIAL TREATISE ON SELECTED POEMS OF DEREK WALCOTT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 4, page no. pp1308-1312, April-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1804436.pdf

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Published Paper ID: JETIR1804436
Registration ID: 317236
Published In: Volume 5 | Issue 4 | Year April-2018
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Page No: 1308-1312
Country: -, -, India .
Area: Engineering
ISSN Number: 2349-5162
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