Derek Walcott: Early Pompeian

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Early Pompeian

The Fortunate Traveller, New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1981

446-451

Allusion to Classical figure The blind Fates, Persephone (images of pomegranate and a deathly entry into womanhood).

Allusion to Classical place Pompeii, the Underworld

Classical/post-Classical intertexts Prefaced by a quotation from Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound (1820).