Viagem (Voyage) is the title of the major collection of poetic works by Cecília Benavides de Carvalho Meireles up to 1939, which includes a poem by the same name. The volume won an award from the Brazilian Academy of Letters… Read More ›
spiritual journey in poetry
Analysis of Derek Walcott’s The Schooner Flight
This quest poem fuses Derek Walcott’s highly metaphoric style with distinctly Caribbean Creole speech patterns. The narrator, a poet/sailor named Shabine, speaks English Creole, declaring, “Well, when I write / this poem, each phrase go be soaked in salt.” This… Read More ›