Summary on poem le loup garou derek walcott?

Answer 1

The poem begin with a 'curious tale' which 'threaded through the town' (note the use of alliteration). Through greying women sewing under eaves. These 'greying women' (meaning old women) may not have been literally sewing under the trees, but were 'threading the tale'; meaning, they were gossiping(although it can mean that litterally and while they were doing so they were gossipping). Was how his greed had brought old le brun down. (what comes next is a tell of how his greed brought him down' Greeted by slowly shutting jalousies (refers to the people who shut their windows at him, meaning that they were shunning him,; he was ostracised ''When he approached them in white linen suit,

Pink glasses, cork hat, and tap-tapping cane'' This description is used to give a visual imagery of how he dressed. These lines go on to point to a man who now sports the trappings of what the poem suggests is wealth through ill means

A dying man licensed to sell sick fruit-

The Le Loup Garou werewolf is a werewolf myth that comes from French Canadian folklore but it's also widely known throughout Europe.

Just like other werewolves, the Le Loup Garou werewolf was once a human before being turned into a werewolf. However, they were turned for a very specific reason. A human would be turned into a Le Loup Garou if he had failed to meet his religious Easterly duties for seven years in a row.; These sinning humans would usually be turned into wolf form.

le loupgarou is about a man le brun who is ostricised by his community. He was once rich but it is said that his greed brought him down. The people in the town spreads rumors about him saying that one night he turned into a werewolf.

In relation to the folklore, it could be said that this man was changed into a werewolf because of his 'sins' or in the poem; his greed. Literally, he could have been changed into a werewolf, but figuratively, the man's personality could have been changed into a 'wolf'. This is an allusion, as a sheep is a representative of a good person, versus a wolf which would be an evil or bad person. So, it could be said that his greed transformed him into an evil person.

Well, if you believe the poem is about a werewolf, then he could be the "dying man" and selling "sick fruit" could mean he's spreading his illness by infecting others. Or it could mean he's spreading evil. Or the man could be a drug dealer, and the sick fruit is his drugs.

Any illegal services or products could be the 'sick fruit'. There's a lot of ways to interpret it.

'Ruined by fiends with whom he'd made a bargain' refers to him making a bad deal which went sour.

'It seems one night, thes christian witches said' (christian witches is an oxymoron, and also a use of irony, as these women were so-called christians yet they were here gossiping about this man)

'He changed himself into an Alsatian hound...hot on a scent' refers to his change into either a wereful literally or an evil person.

'But his own watchman dealt the thing a wound... almost dead' (is an allusion to a greek myth, when the goddess dianna transformed a hunter into an elk because he had seen her naked, so she turned him into an elk to prevent him from boasting that he had seen her, the hunter's own dogs killed him, so the hunter became the hunted) (also this watchman/protector [also a use of irony, that someone who was supposed to be protecting him, caused his own demise] harmed him or ruined him)

'Which howled and lugged.. almost dead' (basically refers to the wound/injury which he was dealt, and the severity of the wound, or harm which was done

Answer 2

it is about a man named le brun who was ostricised by his community ,he was once a man who was rich but it is said that his greed was what brought him down (he sold his soul to the devil). it is said that at nights he turned himself into a werewolf [le loupgarou] or a lycanthrope to create mischive. the poem is fiction that is why the title is written in quotation marks to say that it is a false story or its not true or its just a story told by the old women sewing under their eaves.

le loupgarou means a werewolf.