Homecoming: Anse La Raye (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Derek Walcott
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Culture, Children, Caribbean, Alienation, Immigration or emigration, Islands, Home, Fishing or fishermen, Ocean
The Poem
“Homecoming: Anse La Raye” is a poem of moderate length, with sixty lines of free verse divided unevenly into four stanzas. The title of the poem indicates the work’s subject: the speaker’s return to the village of Anse la Raye on the Caribbean Island of St. Lucia. This island is the birthplace of Derek Walcott, who can be identified as the speaker in the poem.
The poem begins in the first-person plural, but by the second stanza the voice shifts to the second person as the speaker begins to address his poetic self. The speaker states that his poetic...
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