BLOG #6

[nirwin]

Derek Walcott’s

“Ruins of a Great House”

There are numerous inter-textual references in Derek Walcott’s “Ruins of a Great House”.  The poem begins with a brief excerpt from Thomas Browne’s “Urn Burial” which suggests that eventually everything dies.  I believe that Walcott incorporated the quote into his work because it ties together nicely with

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Blog #6 comments

[nikki_028]

I found it very good in your entry that you encorporated death as the main theme. your comment "things changs often for the better, giving them a new spin on the old" i felt was important because it stated the importance that with death there is rebirth. Continuing on the the cycle that; although it is important to remember the dead through monuments such as "urns", it is also important to live life presently and embrace new life that effects our lives in positive ways.