Examination and critical analysis of "The Spoiler's Return" by Walcott about the corruption in Trinidadian society.

MEG-08
INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 2017-2018 (Based on Blocks 18) 
Course Code: MEG-08/ 2017-18 Max. Marks: 100

6. “The Spoiler’s Return” by Walcott talks about the corruption in Trinidadian society. Examine the poem and critically analyse it. 

Derek Walcott, by his work, achieved  three colossal feats.

First, he wrote about the Caribbean landscape in such as way as to magnify it. Not only did he give our landscape

a certain epic status,  he conferred on it deific  significance as perhaps only the  fallen Taino, Arahuacan ancestors, deified before. Here is Walcott writing in Omeros: “The same sunrise stirred the feathered lances  of cane down the archipelago’s highways.” This is not just cane. Cane  you pass by when coming down the highway. He bequeaths  stature and majesty to ordinary cane. He confers  on us our landscape -that  which we have been taught,  like Caliban, the Shakespearean slave, to despise-a majesty

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