Derek Walcott
Love after love

 

Caribbean Poetry – Poem

Full English Text

Caribbean literature

 

” Love after love “ is a poem by Derek Walcott (Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and considered the largest and most important poet and playwright of the western india). The poetry “love after love” by Derek Walcott was published in his book / collection of poems: “White Egrets” in 2010.

“Love after love” by Derek Walcott is a Love poem towards oneself, to those who, in the journey of time, finds his past I and see him as a stranger, because grew up, because aged, because the path changed it. Derek Walcott in poetry “Love after love” invites the different himself ones scattered over time, to find himself, to celebrate himself, to love the different himself.
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Derek Walcott

Love after love

 

Caribbean Poetry

Original English Text

 

The time will come

when, with elation

you will greet yourself arriving

at your own door, in your own mirror

and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

 

and say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

 

all your life, whom you ignored

for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

 

the photographs, the desperate notes,

peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.

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Derek Walcott – Love after love

Caribbean Literature

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Derek Walcott

Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Derek Walcott was the University of Alberta’s first distinguished scholar in residence, where he taught undergraduate and graduate writing courses.
Derek Walcott also served as Professor of Poetry at the University of Essex from 2010 to 2013. His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990),  which many critics view “as Walcott’s major achievement.” In addition to winning the Nobel Prize, Walcott received many literary awards over the course of his career, including an Obie Award in 1971 for his play Dream on Monkey Mountain, a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award, a Royal Society of Literature Award, the Queen’s Medal for Poetry, the inaugural OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature,the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry White Egrets and the Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award in 2015. (wikipedia)

 

 

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