In a poem by this man, the speaker remarks that the "ancient war between obsession and responsibility will never finish." The speaker is reminded of "Ancestral murderers and poets, more perplexed in memory now by every ulcerous crime" in a poem by this man that opens with an epigraph from Hydriotaphia. A poem by this man compares the "longing" of a mythological figure to "the adulterer hearing Nausicaa's name in every (*) gull's outcry." The speaker of a poem by this man recalls how "a smell of dead limes quickens in the nose" while viewing the "disjecta membra" of the title structure. This au
In a poem by this man, the speaker remarks that the "ancient war between obsession and responsibility will never finish." The speaker is reminded of "Ancestral murderers and poets, more perplexed in memory now by every ulcerous crime" in a poem by this man that opens with an epigraph from Hydriotaphia. A poem by this man compares the "longing" of a mythological figure to "the adulterer hearing Nausicaa's name in every (*) gull's outcry." The speaker of a poem by this man recalls how "a smell of dead limes quickens in the nose" while viewing the "disjecta membra" of the title structure. This author included the blind character Seven Seas in a seven-book epic poem in which Achille and Hector vie for the love of the woman Helen. For 10 points, name this St. Lucian author of "Sea Grapes," "Ruins of a Great House," and the epic poem Omeros.
In a poem by this man, the speaker remarks that the "ancient war between obsession and responsibility will never finish.
Derek Walcott