Analysis Of Derek Walcott's Love After Love

Derek Walcott is a poet, playwright, writer, and visual artist from Castries, Saint Lucian. Methodism and spirituality play a symbolic role in Walcott 's work. From his native Caribbean to Italy, Spain, England, the Netherlands, and the United States, Walcott meditates on the passage of time, fallen empires, bygone love affairs, and mortality. His work merges together an assortment of different models including the folktale, morality play, allegory, fable and has many mythological characters. In 1992, he was awarded the Noble Prize of Literature and in 2011 he won the T.S Elliot Prize for white egrets. Walcott’s poem Love after Love speaks about self-love. It personifies love by making love sound as if it were an actual person. A free written verse that speaks about self-identity, the importance of reconnecting yourself, never forgetting, and self-recognition that without the love for oneself, one cannot love anyone else.

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These messages are important because without those three things it is almost impossible to go back to the past person. Derek Walcott is an amazing poet. His poems are on subjects that can connect to any point in time whether it 's hundreds of years ago, to hundreds of years in the future. Walcott speaks about loving yourself, identity crisis are so relevant to anyone 's life especially to a young adult trying to figure out who they are or who they even want to be. A new audience can be reached by changing the diction of some of his poems to more modern words that are easily understood by the new generations. Not often are students educated the way of speaking in the past. Another way to reach a bigger audience is to make the poems easily attainable. Walcott 's poems are not very easy to have a hold of because many require a purchase of a book and with the way technology is evolving, books are no longer used as they once