This poet asked "why should a man wax tears, when his wooden world fails?" 
This poet asked "why should a man wax tears, when his wooden world fails?" in a sonnet whose speaker attempts to describe "faiths that were snapped like wire" after "that hot gospeller has levelled all but the churched sky."  This poet observed "The classics can console. But not enough" in a poem which compares "that father and husband's longing" to "the adulterer hearing Nausicaa's name in every gull's outcry." This poet wrote "either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation" in a poem narrated by the sailor Shabine. This poet of "The Schooner Flight," "A City's Death by Fire," and "Sea Grapes" wrote "a smell of dead limes quickens in the nose / The leprosy of empire" in a poem comparing colonial England to a rotting mansion, "Ruins of a Great House." In a long poem by this author, Ma Kilman heals the wound of Philoctete and Major Plunkett researches the history of St. Lucia. For 10 points, name this Caribbean poet of Omeros.
This poet asked "why should a man wax tears, when his wooden world fails?" in a sonnet whose speaker attempts to describe "faiths that were snapped like wire" after "that hot gospeller has levelled all but the churched sky."  
Derek Walcott