Derek Walcott: Collected Poems Quizzes

Derek Walcott: Collected Poems "Names"

1 What is the race Walcott is referring to in the first stanza of "Names"?
Caribbeans

Europeans

Asians

Africans
2 Why, in "Names," are the palms greater than Versailles?
They are alive, while Versailles is made of stone

They will last, while Versailles will be destroyed

They are beautiful, while Versailles is ugly

They were made by nature, while Versailles was made by man
3 Which of the following genres does Walcott's use of repetition in the first section of "Names" recall?
Novels

Plays

Philosophy

Folklore
4 In "Names," why do the Europeans call a pigsty "little Versailles"
To mock it in comparison to their homeland

In an attempt to glorify their own building efforts

In an attempt to praise the accomplishments of the native people

They really designed it to look like Versailles
5 Which of the following places is NOT named in "Names"?
Benin

Canton

Madrid

Benares
6 Which of the following devices does Walcott use to establish a sense of rhythm in "Names"?
Alliteration

Repetition

Meter

Rhyme
7 Why is the story that Walcott writes in the first section of "Names" insufficient?
He only has his individual perspective, so its impossible to tell the story of his whole race

His story cannot explain why colonizers did what they did

He doesn't know what will happen to his people, and there's no point to writing a story without an end

His people cannot remember a past before colonization, so there is no beginning
8 In the third stanza of the second section of "Names," who does the phrase "Being men, they could not live" (58) refer to?
The speaker's ancestors

Africans

All people

Europeans
9 Which of the following best summarizes the themes of the first and second sections of "Names"?
The first talks about the story of the race, and the second talks about language

The first talks about colonization and the second talks about decolonization

The first talks about language, and the second talks about the story of the race

The first talks about man-made culture and the second talks about nature
10 What is the attitude of the Europeans towards the Caribbean in "Names"?
Curious, exploratory

Mocking and bitter

Desirous and greedy

Indifferent
11 Which of the following literary devices does Walcott employ in lines 8-9 of "Names"?
Allusion

Repetition

Metaphor

Alliteration
12 What is enjambment?
Breaking a poetic line in the middle of a phrase

Using the same word to begin multiple lines

Comparing two words using "like" or "as"

Referring to something small to represent a larger whole
13 Which of the following best describes the rhythm of the second section of "Names"?
Sing-song

Smooth

Fragmented

Frenetic
14 In "Names," what happens to the names the Europeans imposed on the Caribbean landscape?
The Caribbean people get rid of the European colonizers and invent their own names

The Europeans force the Caribbean people to use them in public even though they have their own names for the land which they use in private

The Caribbean people continue to use them even after the Europeans begin to forget their homeland

The Europeans force the Caribbean people to change them
15 Which of the following is NOT an aesthetic function of repetition in "Names"?
It puts emphasis on repeated phrases

It makes the poem easier to memorize

It gives the poem a predictable structure

It makes the poem sound better
16 What is Walcott really talking about in "Names" when he refers to "that moment / when the mind was halved by the horizon" (10-11)?
The moment when a ship first reaches land

The first Caribbean person killed by a European

The European construction of false dichotomies

The moment when the earth was created and the land was split from the sea
17 How do the Africans use repetition against the colonizers in "Names"?
They repeat the colonizer's language in order to mock it

They repeat the colonizer's language in order to claim and transform it

They repeat their own languages in order to remember them

They see Europe as repeating the images of their homeland
18 Which of the following motifs does NOT appear in Names?
The Sky

Decay

Love

Work
19 Why is the phrase "no man unmade them/except the worm" subversive in "Names"?
It suggests that the human race will die off and be replaced by worms

It suggests that men are wormlike

It insults human beings by comparing them to worms

It suggests that the difference between humans and worms is not absolute
20 Which of the following themes is least important to "Names"?
Faith

Loss of Origin

The Continued Presence of History

Relationship with Nature
21 The ending of "Names" most closely parallels which other Derek Walcott poem?
Map of the New World

Love After Love

Becune Point

Ruins of the Great House
22 Which of the following best describes how the Caribbean people respond to the names given to the landscape by Europeans?
They transform the connotations of the names

They ignore the names

They create new names

They forget the names
23 Where was Derek Walcott born?
St. Lucia

England

Jamaica

America
24 When was St. Lucia liberated?
1979

1814

1834

1924
25 "As a fishline sinks, the horizon sinks in the memory" is an example of what literary device?
Allegory

Simile

Alliteration

Metaphor

Critically explore the use of intertextuality or ‘historical / textual-metaphors’ to re-scribe personal and social histories in the following poem by Derek Walcott: “The Sea is History"

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DEREK WALCOTT POETRY

Many of Walcott’s poems are extremely concerned not only with nature, but with the difficulty of describing nature as a poet. “Map of a New World” and “Becune Point” are explicitly about this problem. In both poems, it is difficult to live an...

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A BEND IN THE RIVER AS A PROCOLONIAL OR POSTCOLONIAL NOVEL.

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https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_narrative_theory/summary/v040/40.2.johnson.html

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Answered by Aslan on 3/29/2014 11:47 PM

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