Derek Walcott: Map of the New World: I, Archipelagoes

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Map of the New World: I,  Archipelagoes

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

413

Allusion to Classical figure Helen, Homer (‘a man with clouded eyes’)

Allusion to Classical place Troy

Relationship to Classical text The poem closes with the image of a poet plucking the first line of the Odyssey.