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HOMECOMING: 3 by DEREK WALCOTT

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN THE VIOLIN WHINES ITS QUESTION AND THE BANJO ANSWERS
Last Line: BUT MY LOVE OF BOTH WIDE AS THE ATLANTIC IS LARGE
Subject(s): HOMECOMING; SAINT LUCIA (CARIBBEAN ISLAND);

Poem Sources:

THE BOUNTY.
  WALCOTT, DEREK
  (1997)
 



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