In a Great House: Derek Walcott and the Yeatsian Legacy
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This paper, a comparative study of two “Great House” poems−W. B. Yeats’s “Meditations in Time of Civil War” and Derek Walcott’s “Ruins of a Great House,” believes that Walcott borrowed much from Yeats, but more for a model of purpose and pose than of poetic techniques. From Yeats’s poem, Walcott borrowed the ideas about the colonial legacy, and accepted Yeats’s idea about the poet’s role in treating the colonial legacy, to guide the cultural reconstruction after his own country winning independence from British domination. But different from Yeats who tended to live in self-seclusion to keep a keen and calm eye on history, Walcott, though exiling himself as Yeats for an objective understanding of history and the colonial legacy, stepped out of self-seclusion to take advantage of the Western cannons and colonial legacy in an open and unperturbed way.
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This paper, a comparative study of two “Great House” poems−W. B. Yeats’s “Meditations in Time of Civil War” and Derek Walcott’s “Ruins of a Great House,” believes that Walcott borrowed much from Yeats, but more for a model of purpose and pose than of poetic techniques. From Yeats’s poem, Walcott borrowed the ideas about the colonial legacy, and accepted Yeats’s idea about the poet’s role in treating the colonial legacy, to guide the cultural reconstruction after his own country winning independence from British domination. But different from Yeats who tended to live in self-seclusion to keep a keen and calm eye on history, Walcott, though exiling himself as Yeats for an objective understanding of history and the colonial legacy, stepped out of self-seclusion to take advantage of the Western cannons and colonial legacy in an open and unperturbed way.
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