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A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Sea Canes"
A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Sea Canes"
A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Sea Canes"
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A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Sea Canes"

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A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Sea Canes," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
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Release dateSep 28, 2016
ISBN9781535832670
A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Sea Canes"

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    A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Sea Canes" - Gale

    11

    Sea Canes

    Derek Walcott

    1976

    Introduction

    In Sea Canes, Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott uses his Caribbean background to illustrate the anger that people have toward death. The poem features a person coming to terms with the fact that many of his friends have died. At first the speaker is angry, but he eventually learns to see that the departed are still with him, to be found in the world that surrounds him. That world, the West Indies of Walcott's youth, is evoked in the poet's descriptions of the ocean, the moonlight, and the tall groves of sugarcane that form a barrier between the land and the sea.

    Before Walcott came to international prominence, few people gave much consideration to the literature of the Caribbean. The publication of his early collection, In a Green Night, in 1962 changed that. By the time Walcott published Sea Grapes, the 1976 collection in which Sea Canes first appeared, he was recognized throughout the world for both his poetry and his plays, which had been performed in major theaters on Broadway and in London's West End. At a time when writers in the Caribbean were using their writings to speak out against the injustices of colonialism and the legacy left in its wake, Walcott's work was more personal and introspective, and therefore related more to the personal lives of people of all different cultures.

    Almost fifty years after he first became well known, Walcott's poetry still draws international praise. Sea Canes is one of his most frequently anthologized poems, and it is included in his 2007 publication Selected Poems, published by Farrar, Straus and

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