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"The Virgins," is a poem whose setting is the Caribbean archipelago of the triad of The US Virgin Islands, The Spanish Virgin islands and The British Virgin Islands. The speaker in the poem expresses their disillusionment at being disenfranchised, exchanging their virgin land and its unadulterated natural beauty with what the speaker appears to regard as gaudy trappings of American civilisation.
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∙ 10y agoI took it as a treatise on the conundrum persuing the American dream in someplace sunny and nice but having to put up with the tourists, how you can't have everything even if you are an American in the Virgin Islands.
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∙ 10y agoIn the poem called "The Virgins," Derek Walcott is portraying a place that is lost to the changes that are happening in the world. The city is lost to the passing of time.
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Irony
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Derek Walcott is still alive.
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Derek Walcott won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.
When was Derek Walcott born?
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Where does Derek Walcott live?
In my imagination.
Did Derek Walcott have any children?
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Who is the greatest poet alive?
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Sir Derek Walcott was 87 years old when he died on March 17, 2017 (birthdate: January 23, 1930).
Is there a critical analysis on Derek Walcott's poem A Lesson for This Sunday?
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