Derek Walcott's "Remnants of a Great House", is a sonnet written in his point of view of the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. Amid the 1800's bondage was being annulled be that as it may, before this time slave conditions in the sugar homes were among the most merciless. Subjects that persistently emerge in the lyric are Walcott's appearances about the devastation of the Caribbean utilizing references to death, rotting, and recorded figures. Walcott utilizes realistic symbolism, unpredictable dialect and rhyme plans to pass on what he feels were not kidding issues in the Caribbean amid this period.
Walcott begins the sonnet with "Stones of disjecta membra of this Great House/Whose moth-like young ladies are blended with light tidy". With this he is depicting an old house that has been pulverized. Disjecta membra is scattered parts and the words moth-like would have the peruser consider something old. Flame clean is the deposit you get from a candle once it has been completely utilized and you can never again light it. This is an …show more content…
For example, in the last Stanza he says "Yet at the same time the coal of my empathy battled". With this Walcott is stating that the coal was his fuel and his empathy was seething by introducing a picture of a solid consuming flame that can't be put out. Likewise in Stanza 2 when Walcott says, "Goodbye, green fields, Farewell ye cheerful forests!" we see a hand over the symbolism he exhibits. This statement gives a picture of a delightful field with culminate green grass and sound trees, which just shows up once in the sonnet. In any case, if the peruser is instructed on the ballad "Night" by Blake, as it is about wickedness ascending with the murkiness, they will realize this isn't such an excellent picture Walcott is attempting to
Walcott begins the sonnet with "Stones of disjecta membra of this Great House/Whose moth-like young ladies are blended with light tidy". With this he is depicting an old house that has been pulverized. Disjecta membra is scattered parts and the words moth-like would have the peruser consider something old. Flame clean is the deposit you get from a candle once it has been completely utilized and you can never again light it. This is an …show more content…
For example, in the last Stanza he says "Yet at the same time the coal of my empathy battled". With this Walcott is stating that the coal was his fuel and his empathy was seething by introducing a picture of a solid consuming flame that can't be put out. Likewise in Stanza 2 when Walcott says, "Goodbye, green fields, Farewell ye cheerful forests!" we see a hand over the symbolism he exhibits. This statement gives a picture of a delightful field with culminate green grass and sound trees, which just shows up once in the sonnet. In any case, if the peruser is instructed on the ballad "Night" by Blake, as it is about wickedness ascending with the murkiness, they will realize this isn't such an excellent picture Walcott is attempting to