Derek Walcott: XXV

Poem Title

Original Publication

CP Page no

XXV

Midsummer, New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1984

484

Allusion to Classical figure Helen, Odysseus, Nike

Allusion to Classical place Ionia

Relationship to Classical text Echoes of Homeric epic. Walcott likens his poetic craft to that of a seafaring voyager.