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Derek Walcott: Orient and Immortal Wheat

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Orient and Immortal Wheat

In a Green Night, London: J. Cape, 1962

36-37

 

Allusion to Classical figure ‘Chaos, genderer of Earth, called Night’

Derek Walcott

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    • A Sea-Chantey
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    • Crusoe’s Journal
    • Goats and Monkeys
    • Homage to Gregorias, A Simple Flame and The Estranging Sea
    • Homecoming: Anse La Raye
    • Lampfall
    • Orient and Immortal Wheat
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    • The Divided Child, Chapter 5
    • The Divided Child, Chapter 6
    • Two Poems on the Passing of an Empire
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    • Egypt, Tobago
    • Europa
    • From This Far
    • Hurucan
    • II
    • Map of the New World: I, Archipelagoes
    • North and South
    • The Hotel Normandie Pool
    • The Spoiler’s Return
    • The Star Apple Kingdom
    • To Return to the Trees
    • XLIII
    • XXV
    • XXXIII
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