Read the excerpt from Midsummer by Derek Walcott.Praise had bled my lines white of any more anger,and snow had inducted me into white fellowships,while Calibans howled down the barred streets of an empire

Walcott compares the people rioting in the streets to Caliban, a character from Shakespeare’s The Tempest who is controlled and treated as an outsider. The phrase “Calibans howled down the barred streets of an empire” suggests the rioters share Caliban’s position as people rebelling against an oppressive power. So Walcott presents the rioters as similar to this Shakespearean character.

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