B. Wordsworth by V. S. Naipaul Flashcards
Where is “B. Wordsworth” set?
Port of Spain, a town in the republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Where does the narrator live?
Miguel Street
Where does B. Wordsworth live?
Alberto Street
What trees surround B. Wordsworth’s one-roomed hut?
A mango, coconut, and plum tree
What constallation does the narrator remember most from his time with B. Wordsworth?
Orion
Who was Orion in mythology?
Orion was a hunter who passed when he stepped on a scorpion known as Scorpius.
How old is Wordsworth?
About 60;
Started being a poet at 20 (?)
How does B. Wordsworth support his living?
Singing calypsos
How does B. Wordsworth plan on writing the greatest poem in the world?
By writing one line a month;
The only update we are given on this is the line: “The past is deep.”
Who serves as a foil to B. Wordsworth’s accommodating nature?
The narrator’s mother
How is B. Wordsworth similar to his English Romantic counterpart?
Like the nature poet that was William Wordsworth, B. Wordsworth loves to spend time with nature
What are the things the narrator and B. Wordsworth do together?
-Visit the Rock Garden and the Botanical Gardens
-Climb the Chancellor’s Hill in the late afternoon
-Watch the darkness fall on the Port of Spain
What literary device is consistently present in the characters’ dialogue?
Dialect
How is B. Wordsworth like poetry?
He is a poetry that is lived, not written;
He lives his life like a poem
How much does B. Wordsworth sell his poems?
20 cents
