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Derek Walcott, “Midsummer, Tobago”

From Derek Walcott's "Midsummer, Tobago”

"… from the summer-sleeping house drowsing through August.

Days I have held, days I have lost,

days that outgrow, like daughters, my harboring arms."

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Days I have held, days I have lost, days that outgrow, like daughters, my harbouring arms.

Derek Walcott, from Midsummer, Tobago

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Midsummer, Tobago - Derek Walcott - Saint Lucia

Broad sun-stoned beaches.

White heat. A green river.

A bridge, scorched yellow palms

from the summer-sleeping house drowsing through August.

Days I have held, days I have lost,

days that outgrow, like daughters, my harbouring arms.

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I wrote an essay about Walcott's poem "Midsummer, Tobago" and titled it Don't You Know That It's Insane?

My professor told me how much they loved the title and when I told them that, being a Vampire Weekend fan, I couldn't pass up this opportunity. He didn't understand what I was talking about. He didn't know who Vampire Weekend was, let alone that they had a song titled Walcott. He thought my title was really deep and an inquisitive way to set up my paper. 

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Midsummer, Tobago by Derek Walcott

Broad sun-stoned beaches. White heat. A green river. A bridge, scorched yellow palms from the summer-sleeping house drowsing through August. Days I have held, days I have lost, days that outgrow, like daughters, my harbouring arms.

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Midsummer, Tobago

Midsummer, Tobago

Broad sun-stoned beaches.

White heat. A green river.

A bridge, scorched yellow palms

from the summer-sleeping house drowsing through August.

Days I have held, days I have lost,

days that outgrow, like daughters, my harbouring arms.   ~~ Derek Walcott ~~

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"Days I have held, days I have lost, days that outgrow, like daughters, my harbouring arms."

Derek Walcott, from "Midsummer, Tobago"