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Subject: SAINT LUCIA, WEST INDIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CRUSOE'S ISLAND, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The chapel's cowbell / like god's anvil
Subject(s): Saint Lucia, West Indies


CRUSOE'S ISLAND, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The chapel's cowbell %like god's anvil
Last Line: Can bless them as the bell's %transfiguring tongue can bless
Subject(s): Saint Lucia, West Indies


IN LATE-AFTERNNON LIGHT THE TOPS OF THE BREADFRUIT LEAVES, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In late-afternoon light the tops of the breadfruit leaves
Last Line: Green and red lights droning where stars and fireflies breed
Subject(s): Saint Lucia, West Indies


SORROWS OF YAMBA, OR THE NEGRO WOMAN'S LAMENTATION, by HANNAH MORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In st. Lucia's distant isle
Last Line: There 'the weary are at rest'
Subject(s): Blacks; Lament; Saint Lucia, West Indies; Slavery; Women