This is a short Analysis of the Endings by Derek Walcott.
POEM:
Things do not explode,
they fail, they fade,
as sunlight fades from the flesh,
as the foam drains quick in the sand,
even love’s lightning flash
has no thunderous end,
it dies with the sound
of flowers fading like the flesh
from sweating pumice stone,
everything shapes this
till we are left
with the silence that surrounds Beethoven’s head.
About Derek Walcott:
Derek Walcott, in full Derek Alton Walcott, was West Indian artist and dramatist noted for works that investigate the Caribbean social experience. He got the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.
Walcott was instructed at St. Mary's College in Saint Lucia and at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. He started composing verse at an early age, educated at schools in Saint Lucia and Grenada, and contributed articles and audits to periodicals in Trinidad and Jamaica. Creations of his plays started in Saint Lucia in 1950, and he contemplated theater in New York City in 1958– 59. He lived from that point in Trinidad and the United States, educating for part of the year at Boston University...READ MORE
