Walcott Quotes Bac

Question 1

The adultress

Answer 1

Stoned to death is killed in our time, by whispers, by the breath that films her flesh with slime

Adam’s song

Siballence (link to snake)
Airy, sound, not physical pain but will cutthroat
Gossip, tainting

Contrast of two forms of punishment

Question 2

Heart, you are

Answer 2

In my heart as the bird rises
Heart, you are in my heart while the sun sleeps

Adam’s song

Repetion of heart
Renewal & hope vs dark times

Cyclical yet love is always present

Question 3

The song

Answer 3

Ascends to God, who wipes his eyes

Adam’s song

Question 4

Corpses are

Answer 4

Scattered through a paradise

A far cry from africa

Question 5

Seeks his

Answer 5

Divinity by inflicting pain

A far cry from africa

Religion

Question 6

The gorilla

Answer 6

Wrestles with the superman

A far cry from africa

Different types of strengths

Question 7

I who am

Answer 7

Poisoned by the blood of both

Afcfa

Question 8

Divided

Answer 8

To the vein afcfa

Question 9

How choose

Answer 9

Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?

Question 10

Somewhere they’re tired

Answer 10

Of torture stories

Alliteration in T
Elsewhere

Question 11

The foliage no

Answer 11

Longer looks like leaves but camouflage
Elsewhere

Question 12

Somewhere there was

Answer 12

A small harvest of bodies in the truck

Euphemism, metaphor

Elsewhere

Question 13

Your clothes,

Answer 13

Your posture, seemed a tourist’s

Homecoming anse la raye

Question 14

Needle’s

Answer 14

Eye

Biblical ref to a passage about a camel passing through the eye of a needle

Diff concilling wealth and purity

Homecoming anse la raye

Question 16

It’s moods

Answer 16

Held no mythology
For you, it was a working place
Of tonnage and ruled stars

Landfall Grenada

Contrast between a romanticised perception with RH’s perception of the sea

Question 17

Mocking tolerance of those

Answer 17

Neat gravestone elegies

Formality
Dignified humility in death

Landfall Grenada

Question 18

Through a great lion’s

Answer 18

Head clouded by mange a black clerk growls

Transformation from mundane to powerful persona

Analyse lion Vs mange

Mass man

Question 19

But I am dancing

Answer 19

,look, from an old gibbet

Mass man

Question 20

Some skull

Answer 20

Must rub it’s memory with ashes

Mass man

Repetion in final stanza of some + body part + must + action verb

Question 21

A child

Answer 21

Rigged like a bat, collapses, sobbing

Mass man

Question 22

Nearing forty

Answer 22

One sentence

I–> you doesn’t recognise himself

Lexus of simplicity “bleak” “average” “simple” “plain”

“Dry wheezing of a dented kettle”

Question 23

It is not like

Answer 23

The weather
You cannot brace yourself,
The unreadiness is all

Odd-job a bull terrier

Question 24

Those forced

Answer 24

Hoarse hossannas awe

Parades, parades

Question 25

The same

Answer 25

Lines rule the white papers, The same steps ascend Whitehall And only the name of the fool changes Parades parades

Question 26

There's the wide

Answer 26

Desert, but no one marches Except in the pads of old caravans Analysis Parades, parades

Question 27

Disjecta

Answer 27

Membra of this great house Analysis Ruins of a great house

Question 29

I heard what Kipling heard

Answer 29

The death of a great empire, the abuse of ignorance by bible and by sword Ruins of a great house Kipling = loyalist to the empire

Question 30

Ancestral murders

Answer 30

And poets Ruins of a great house

Question 31

The albion

Answer 31

Too was once a colony like ours Ruins of a great house

Question 32

Half my friends

Answer 32

Are dead. Matter of fact, full stop, no lit device Sea canes

Question 33

The sea canes

Answer 33

By the cliff flash green and silver; they were the seraph Lance's of my faith Analysis Sea canes

Question 34

Under gnarled

Answer 34

Sour grapes is like the adulter hearing nausicaa's name Sea grapes Analysis Odysseus

Question 35

The classics can

Answer 35

Console. But not enough. Sea grapes

Question 36

There's nothing here

Answer 36

This early; Cold sand Cold churning ocean, the Atlantic, No visible history Analysis The Almond Trees

Question 37

Almond trees

Answer 37

Lexus of heat and fire "toasting" "acetylene air" "singed" "sear" "flame"

Question 38

One sunburnt body

Answer 38

Now acknowledges that past and it's own metamorphosis The Almond trees

Question 39

Bullock

Answer 39

Cart Vs Bustling streets of London The bright field

Question 40

Their sun that

Answer 40

Would not set was going down The bright field

Question 41

Even in London

Answer 41

Heart of our history, original sin The bright field

Question 42

Blowing sand

Answer 42

Thin as smoke Bored, shifts it's dunes The surf tires of it's castles like a child The castaway

Question 43

In the sun, the dog's

Answer 43

Feces Crusts, whitens like coral Simile, tries to be poetic but language fails outside soc Passing of time The castaway

Question 44

If I listen I can hear

Answer 44

The polyp build The castaway

Question 45

That green wine

Answer 45

Bottle's gospel choked with sand The castaway

Question 46

Then all the nations

Answer 46

Bird lifted together The huge net of the shadows of this earth The season of phantasmal peace

Question 47

Burkly

Answer 47

Oak Vs felled almond Return to the trees

Question 48

It's speckled hues

Answer 48

Like quartz Return to the trees

Question 49

Planters whose

Answer 49

Tears were marketable gum Verandah

Question 50

Colonels hard

Answer 50

As the commonwealth's greenheart [...] Kept an empire in the red

Question 51

Your house has voices

Answer 51

,your burnt house shrills with unguessed, lovely inheritors Verandah