The speaker of a poem by this author thinks of "men like Hawkins, Walter Raleigh, Drake, ancestral murderers and poets, more perplexed in memory now by every ulcerous crime".
The speaker of a poem by this author thinks of "men like Hawkins, Walter Raleigh, Drake, ancestral murderers and poets, more perplexed in memory now by every ulcerous crime". In that poem, he described how "a smell of dead limes quickens in the nose", representing "the leprosy of empire" recalled by the "disjecta membra" of the title place. The speaker of another poem by this author alludes to "the ancient war between obsession and responsibility" and declares, "The classics can console. But not enough". This poet of "Ruins of a Great House" and "Sea Grapes" included the blind man Seven Seas in an epic poem in which Hector and the fisherman Achille fight for the love of Helen. For 10 points, name this poet from St. Lucia who wrote the epic poem Omeros.
The speaker of a poem by this author thinks of "men like Hawkins, Walter Raleigh, Drake, ancestral murderers and poets, more perplexed in memory now by every ulcerous crime".
Derek Walcott [or Derek Alton Walcott]