This culture-nature split corresponds, in Walcott's personal mythology, with a split in  his European education and Caribbean childhood; his two homes, in Boston and St. Lucia; the two races, white and black, of his ancestry; and the two languages I know--one so rich/ in its imperial intimacies, its echo of privilege,/ the other like the orange words of a hillside in drought--/ but my love of both wide as the Atlantic is large.
Walcott grew up in the Caribbean and was educated in Europe.