Water imagery and relationship of sea and history in Walcott's collection of poems "The Star-Apple Kingdom"

Bachelor Thesis , 2014 , 47 Pages , Grade: A

Literature - Africa

This research work on Derek Walcott’s Poetry is Qualitative research which is descriptive in its literary form. Its objective is to portray the water imagery. The other aspects discussed in this
research are the link between sea (water) and history. Walcott had a bitter experience with history. He is of the opinion that he was plucked from his roots and thrown away in West Indies because
of which he suffered from identity crises. This research seeks to identify how Walcott self consciously uses water animals, water imagery and the significance of sea with its relationship with history in his collection of poems The Star-Apple Kingdom (1979).Walcott was an elated and enthusiastic poet passionately in love with English. He was one of the resilient diasporic Caribbean writers. Derek Walcott was born on a small island in St. Lucia in 1930 and spent almost whole of his life writing about the sea.
This thesis is divided into four chapters. First chapter includes introduction to the topic of the thesis. The second chapter includes literature review. The third chapter deals with the
relationship of sea and history while the fourth and the last chapter deals with the water imagery and how Walcott associates Sea and history with each other. This thesis tends to prove that
Walcott relates sea and history and also he uses a lot of water imagery in in his collection of poems The Star Apple Kingdom.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Research Methodology
• Relationship of Sea and History in the context of poem The Schooner Flight
• Water Imagery and Association of Sea and History according To Walcott in the Context of The Star-Apple Kingdom
• Conclusion
• Works Cited

Zielsetzung und Themenschwerpunkte

This research work on Derek Walcott's Poetry is Qualitative research which is descriptive in its literary form. Its objective is to portray the water imagery. The other aspects discussed in this research are the link between sea (water) and history. Walcott had a bitter experience with history. He is of the opinion that he was plucked from his roots and thrown away in West Indies because of which he suffered from identity crises. This research seeks to identify how Walcott self consciously uses water animals, water imagery and the significance of sea with its relationship with history in his collection of poems The Star-Apple Kingdom (1979). Walcott was an elated and enthusiastic poet passionately in love with English. He was one of the resilient diasporic Caribbean writers. Derek Walcott was born on a small island in St. Lucia in 1930 and spent almost whole of his life writing about the sea.

• Water imagery in Derek Walcott's poetry
• The relationship between sea and history in Walcott's work
• Walcott's personal experiences and their influence on his poetry
• The significance of the sea in Walcott's Caribbean identity
• The role of language and culture in Walcott's poetry

Zusammenfassung der Kapitel

This research intends to critically review and scrutinize Derek Walcott's literary work focusing on the genre of poetry. Poetry is the writing that forms a concentrated imaginative consciousness of experience in language pegged and arranged to conceive a distinct emotional response through its context, sound and cadence. Poetry is closely packed and a brief form of literature in which the poet conveys to us his thoughts in an efficient way. Poetry is brief and has a quality to convey voluminous information to us. Poetry is a form of literature which is interpreted differently by every person. Poetry usually has multiple meanings i.e. apparent meaning as well as the underlying meaning. The only reason of choosing Walcott's poetry other than the huge collection of his literary works was his different and strong style, lyrical quality of his poems and excellent use of imagery in his poetry. The ground of selecting poetry was that I would have freedom of expression accordingly; keeping in mind the actual meaning of poetry that would help me to justify my contention for this research.

The research work that I am going to carry out plans to construe the water imagery used in this collection of poems The Star-Apple Kingdom by Derek Walcott and the connection of sea and history depicted in Walcott's poems. Walcott makes use of water imagery throughout the poems in his collection named The Star-Apple Kingdom. The Star-Apple Kingdom consists of Derek's most popular and most autobiographical sea poem, The Schooner Flight which clearly shows his passionate love for the beauty of island and an intense and indispensable love for the sea. In his collection The Sea Is History he eulogizes the sea as an important principle of civilization and

Schlüsselwörter

The key words and focus themes of the text include water imagery, sea, history, Derek Walcott, The Star-Apple Kingdom, Caribbean identity, diasporic literature, and the relationship between language and culture.

• Course: BS Honors English literature - African poetry
• Grade: A
• Author: Mishal Nasir (Author)
• Publication Year: 2014
• Pages: 47
• Catalog Number: V281466
• ISBN (eBook): 9783656748632
• ISBN (Book): 9783656748366
• Language: English
• Tags: water, walcott, star-apple, kingdom