The treatment of history and hybridity in the poetry of Derek Walcott
The treatment of history and hybridity in the poetry of Derek Walcott Derek Walcott presents the faded image of history and hybridity in his poems. In the poem "Names", Walcott raises the questions of the identity. The use of "noun" in the first stanza of the poem "Names" presents the notion of "lack of proper identity". Walcott's parental and maternal grandmothers were black and his grandfathers were white men. This is the reason behind using of "blood of both" in the poem "A far cry from Africa". In the poem "A far cry from Africa", Walcott tries to present the bloodshed and violence between the ethnic group and the conquerors. Walcott shows the history of their culture in this poem. The notion of English language is also significant. In the poem "Goats and Monkeys", Walcott tries to show the 'racial violence ' through the epigraph of the poem. The epigraph of this poem is ta...