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    A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Midsummer, Tobago"
    A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Midsummer, Tobago"
    A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Midsummer, Tobago"
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    A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Midsummer, Tobago"

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    A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Midsummer, Tobago," 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535828611
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      A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Midsummer, Tobago" - Gale

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      Midsummer, Tobago

      Derek Walcott

      1976

      Introduction

      Poet Derek Walcott is one of the few writers from the West Indies to draw international attention, which peaked with his winning the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature. The biracial Walcott has published numerous plays and collections of poetry, often addressing the subject of the region's difficult history of European rule: Tobago was controlled by France, Spain, the Duchy of Courland Latvia, and the Dutch Republic at various times before becoming a colony of the United Kingdom from 1815 until 1962, when it joined Trinidad as an independent commonwealth. While some Caribbeans write with anger and disdain about their colonial past, Walcott tends to use poetic imagery to explore daily life and regional culture.

      This tendency certainly is evident in the poem Midsummer, Tobago. In it, Walcott describes a quiet but vivid scene in a beautiful setting, with a narrator seemingly nearly drowsing in the heat until, unexpectedly, the poem mentions that days have come and then slipped away. The connection to the colonial theme is understated, but present. In few words, with just eleven lines, Walcott's poem evokes complex emotions. It gives a concise visual image, while leaving readers to intuit the broader social

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