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Ambivalence in the poetry of Derek Walcott
Ambivalence in the poetry of Derek Walcott
The aim of this paper is of explore the ambivalence in the poetry of Walcott. Walcott presents postcolonial and multicultural ambivalence in his poetry; that is, his poetry demonstrates the Caribbean people " s love and hate of the colonizer " s culture. As he is the son of both Anglo-European and the Afro-Caribbean heritage he is divided in his own identity. We find both attraction and revulsion towards the English culture and language all through his poems. There is common style in his poetry that he tries to reduce the gap between the colonizers and colonized. It is true that sometimes he articulates his misery as a divided self but this is not to attack the colonizer but to reveal his crisis and his recommendation is to universalize the ideas. An endeavour is made below to discover Walcott " s ambivalent in his poetry.
Ambivalence in Derek Walcott’s Poetry: A Comparative Study
Abstract Walcott has been a melting pot of ambivalence, hybridity and identity crisis. Walcott’s ambivalence is evident in his themes, choice of language and rhetorical devices etc. His ardent love for Caribbean land, its people and language has been frequently uttered through his emotional voice in his poems. At the same time, he possesses a divided societal position living overseas with appreciation for Western society and love for universal appeal of English language. However, he criticizes the brutality of the colonizers for their imperialistic attitude and torture. This has thrown him into ambivalence of choice and disapproval, acceptance and rejection, and love and hatred. Ambivalence is, thus, ever-present a spectre in his poems as well as in his divided self. The article aims at exploring Walcott’s expression of ambivalence, duality, hybridity and postcolonial dilemma in manifesting identity. Keywords: Ambivalence, Hybridity, Dilemma, Postcolonial, Divided Self etc
2020
This paper is based on the hypothesis that Derek Walcott, the celebrated Caribbean poet, and the recipient of Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, reflects the deeply ingrained complexities of colonial experiences in his poetry. In his creative pursuit, Walcott continuously ‘engages and grapples’ with his traumatic background, and addresses the issues of post-colonial fragmented identity. Based on Walcott’s selected poems, this study aims to explore Walcott’s realization of the problems of colonialism, his unflinching love for English language, his ambivalence and hybridity. Key Terms : colonial history, grapples, post-colonial, fragmented, ambivalence, unflinching, ambivalence, hybridity
Hybridity and Cultural Tensions in Derek Walcott's Poetry: A Postcolonial Perspective
Kazal Kumar Das, 2020
The paper examines the paradoxes of pain and joy in Derek Walcott's fragmented and hybrid identities and racial and colonial tensions in his poetry. It also deals with Walcott's celebration of the hybridity and cosmopolitanism of Caribbean culture. The paper shows how Walcott never loses sight of his colonial past and how he remains critical of the forces shaping the future of his own culture. The paper points out how he confronts the conflicts of his European and African ancestry from the perspective of postcolonial reality. The paper makes a postcolonial analysis of Derek Walcott's one earlier poem, "A Far Cry from Africa" (In a Green Night: Poems, 1948-60, 1962) and two later poems, "Names" (Sea Grapes, 1976) and "The Sea is History" (The Star-Apple Kingdom, 1979) to highlight his search for a Caribbean history while exploring the racial, cultural and colonial tensions embedded in his Caribbean identity. It also shows the historical and political contexts in which he wrote these poems.
Identity, History and Caribbean Experience in Select Poems of Derek Walcott
Covenant Journal of Language Studies, 2022
This study examines how history has shaped social identity and the impacts of both on Caribbean experience in Derek Walcott's poetry. Using New Historicism as theoretical framework, it critiques some Caribbean historical realities highlighted in the selected poems and their impacts on society at individual and societal levels with particular emphasis on identity. Four poems from different collections of Walcott are analyzed in this paper, which are "Codicil", "The River", "Love after Love" and "The Sea is History". The conclusions of this critical engagement show clearly that identity in Caribbean reality is inescapably tied to the traumatic history of displacement, enslavement, migration and alienation of the Caribbean peoples.
" The Art of Seeing " : Painting and Metaphor in Derek Walcott's Poetry
Pre-publicaion text of a paper published online in Derek Walcott Special Issue of Muse India, 73 (May-June 2017), http://www.museindia.com/focuscontent73.asp?issid=73&id=7258\. This article discusses Walcott's engagement with painting and pictorial metaphors throughout his career, with particular attention to Tiepolo's Hound.