Derek Walcott: A Village Life

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A Village Life

The Gulf and Other Poems, London: J. Cape, 1969

79-82

Allusion to Classical figure Charon as a subway attendant, Cassandra howling for the deathly city.

Allusion to Classical place Troy. Subway turnstiles provide a passageway to the underworld when an obol is fed into the slot.