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This 4 page paper examines the life and work of poet Derek Walcott, concentrating on his poem, "A Far Cry from Africa." Bibliography lists 5 sources
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white. This paper discuses his poem A Far Cry from Africa and the readers reaction to it. Derek Walcott Derek Walcott was born in the West Indies, on St. Lucia
in 1930, the "descendent of two white grandfathers and two black grandmothers" (Bixby, 2000). His first language was a "French-English patois," but he received a "English education, an apprenticeship in
language that his mother supported by reciting English poetry at home and by exposing her children to the European classics at an early age" (Bixby, 2000). Walcott appears to be
constantly torn by his mixed heritage, and once wrote bitterly, "Colonials, we began with this malarial enervation: that nothing could ever be built among these rotting shacks, barefooted backyards and
moulting shingles; that being poor, we already had the theater of our lives"(Bixby, 2000). From this struggle "between two cultural heritages" Walcott has created his art and "harnessed [it] to
create a unique creolized style" (Bixby, 2000). His work has provoked sharp reaction, much of it contradictory, as when Caribbean critics "accuse him of neglecting native forms in favor of
techniques derived his colonial oppressors" while those some "oppressors" are ambivalent about him (Bixby, 2000). Bixby believes that his work "manifests an elegant blending of courses-European and American, Caribbean and
Latino, classical and contemporary" (Bixby, 2000). His later work reveal a man "who has learned his craft from the European tradition, but who remains mindful of West Indian landscape and
experiences" (Bixby, 2000). Literary Critiques of the Poem All of the critics cited here have made much the same observation, namely that Walcotts work is expressive of his search
for his identity that springs from his mixed heritage. One says "Mr. Walcott writes of being torn between the Greek and African pantheon, of having to choose / Between this
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