![]() ![]() While dealing with the identity of his own Walcott writes. He hated the English culture but loved the English language and empathized with the Irish for they were also the victims of colonization. Derek Walcott often described himself as a “mongrel” both grandmothers were African and both grandfathers were European. ![]() ![]() In “ A Far Cry from Africa,” Derek Walcott uses the advantages of hybridity to express unhomliness. Walcott finally compares Africans as a primitive beast, and the British as a fictitious, yet mighty, super-hero. Next we are informed the aftermath of the rebellion. The Kikuyu are c ompared to flies who are feeding on blood. “tawny pelt” And how Kikuyu started the bloody battle. The nation itself compared to an animal, as it indicates it is an animal like a lion. ![]() His hybrid existence provides him the scope to dismantle the evil side of both the colonizer and the colonized. The poet has used ample animal imagery to criticise the savage aspects of both culture. At the onset of the poem, Walcott describes the excruciating harsh experience of the rebellion that turns upside down the tranquility and mental peace of the nation. ![]()
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