He always sensed that he had been plucked from his roots and thrown in a place where he is left historyless. Walcott has a very powerfully built relationship with history. Other than noble prize he also won many other awards like Genius award, a Royal Society award, The Queens Model for poetry, and 2011 T.S Eliot’s prize for his book of poetry, White Egrets. Some of his most famous works are Omeros (1990), Dream on Monkey Mountain, Collected poems (1986), The Cast Away, The Gulf, Sea Grapes and many more. He received noble prize in literature and is currently working as a professor of poetry at the University of Essex. He has certain “mulatto ambivalence” towards political and allegiances to Caribbean problems. Walcott is one of the most realistic Caribbean writers. Walcott is a post colonial writer who highlighted and stressed upon work on multiracialism, psychosis of dividedness, cultural shift, identity crises and various other post colonial concerns. This research work aims to detect the deep rooted meanings in the imagery used by Walcott in his collection of poems mentioned earlier and also determines the connection between history and sea. In Walcott’s collection The Star-Apple Kingdom he is mostly discussing sea and history and many beautiful images. In his collection The Sea Is History he eulogizes the sea as an important principle of civilization and memory. 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. Walcott makes use of water imagery throughout the poems in his collection named The Star-Apple Kingdom. 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. 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 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. apparent meaning as well as the underlying meaning. Poetry usually has multiple meanings i.e. Poetry is a form of literature which is interpreted differently by every person. Poetry is brief and has a quality to convey voluminous information to us. 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 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. This research intends to critically review and scrutinize Derek Walcott’s literary work focusing on the genre of poetry.
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