Conclusion

I enjoyed the poems of Derek Walcott because the rich nature of the language used throughout his poems made it very essay to accept. Walcott said his writing was influenced by the work of the American poets, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, who were also friends. In the poem "A far cry from Africa" we see that 'Derek Walcott' not only is brilliant in explaining the imbalance relationship between the colonizer and the colonized but also depicts the pain of a man who stands in-between two cultures and at the end of the poem, he finally confesses his love for the English language as well as his origin. The "Ruins of the great house" tells us about the house which is not full of fond and happy memories, Instead he only tells us about how the house is like and the memories about slavery and colonisation.