Aspects of Walcott’s personal life in the poem Midsummer

NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08

July 2016 & January 2017 Sessions

Programme: MEG

Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2016-17

Max Marks: 100

7. Midsummer explores aspects of Walcott’s personal life. Comment with examples from the poem.

Like 'Another Life', a sequence of lyrics from Walcott’s middle period of poetry, Midsummer is an exploration of aspects of the poet’s intensely personal moments of life.

In both collections, the influence of the American poet Robert Lowell’s much acclaimed Life Studies can be traced. Lowell’s work contains poetic and prose recollections of his family, his childhood and his mature experiences of marriage, imprisonment and hospitalization for mental problems. This started the trend of r what came to be called ‘’Confessional” poetry in which the revelation of the private universe with its entire attendant irrationally became acceptable. Madness, for instance.......................

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