Twilight, a temporal image of in-between space, also tells about Walcott's imagination, his creative faculty and his conception of poetry which is related to the liberation of mental anxiety, there is a "correspondence between Walcott's creative act and the twilight. Indeed creative art is coterminous with twilight"(Macarie 81). As twilight occurs during the period of transition between daylight and darkness, creative art takes place between "the period of consciousness and the period when unconscious contents of psyche are realized" (81). The phenomenon finds its best expression in the following lines of the poem. Darkness climbs their knees until their hands were dark The wind, wave- muscled, kept its steady mowing He followed, that was all, his mind, one step behind Pacing the poem, going where it was going. (Selected Poetry 116)
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This phenomenon is not only reflected as the images of space and time but also in Walcott's creation of marks as they appear in his poems. All his characters whether they are named or not are likely of hybrid nature. The narrator of Another Life describes himself as "a monster" and "prodigy of the wrong age and color" (qtd. in Curry 202). Shabine, another Walcott's persona in the "The Schooner Flight" describes his hybridity as a West Indian when he says, "I have Duuch, nigger, and English in me/and either I am nobody or I'm a nation"(Line 42-43). We perceive heterogeneity of identity in each individual. Sabine's identification with nation implies that the West Indian nations or citizens are seen as hybrid, with multiplicity of identity. The identification of West Indian subject with nation is also reflected in his epic Omeros when the poet makes a declaration that each man was a nation in himself. Moreover, this epic is Walcott's discourse on the West Indian culture in
Metaphors appear in his pivotal …show more content…
This phenomenon is not only reflected as the images of space and time but also in Walcott's creation of marks as they appear in his poems. All his characters whether they are named or not are likely of hybrid nature. The narrator of Another Life describes himself as "a monster" and "prodigy of the wrong age and color" (qtd. in Curry 202). Shabine, another Walcott's persona in the "The Schooner Flight" describes his hybridity as a West Indian when he says, "I have Duuch, nigger, and English in me/and either I am nobody or I'm a nation"(Line 42-43). We perceive heterogeneity of identity in each individual. Sabine's identification with nation implies that the West Indian nations or citizens are seen as hybrid, with multiplicity of identity. The identification of West Indian subject with nation is also reflected in his epic Omeros when the poet makes a declaration that each man was a nation in himself. Moreover, this epic is Walcott's discourse on the West Indian culture in