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

“Calibans” refers to people likened to Caliban, the oppressed character in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The image of them howling in the streets compares those people—suggested to be rioters or protesters—with Caliban. It does not explain Caliban’s actions in the play or simply describe a specific street event.

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