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The poem "To Return to the Trees" concludes with the image of an "obdurate almond going under the sand with [one of these things], slowly, by sand grains, by centuries." The penultimate poem of the sequence Midsummer ends by describing one of these things that "had winged lions in it, and birds cut into a wall." The speaker of the poem "Codicil" claims that "to change [this thing] you must change your life." The speaker of another poem describes how the sprinkling from "an earthen, water-bearing vessel" turns him and his countrymen into "good Fridays" who make their master's one of these things their own. The speaker asks, "how choose between this Africa and [one of these things] I love?" in "A Far Cry from Africa." For 10 points, name these things, the choice of which is an issue for post-colonial writers such as Derek Walcott, who primarily used the English one to compose his works.
The poem "To Return to the Trees" concludes with the image of an "obdurate almond going under the sand with [one of these things], slowly, by sand grains, by centuries.
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