Read the excerpt from Midsummer by Derek Walcott.The leaf stems tug at their chains, the branches bendinglike Boer cattle under Tory whips that drag every wagonnearer to apartheid.
Based on the information in the poem Midsummer, what is the speaker’s perspective on England?
Which quotation from Derek Walcott’s Midsummer contains an allusion?
Based on the speaker’s allusions in Midsummer to Shakespeare and sonnets, readers can infer that the speaker
Read the excerpt from Midsummer by Derek Walcott.the child’s fairy tale of an antic England—fairy rings,thatched cottages fenced with dog roses,a green gale lifting the hair of Warwickshire.
Read the excerpt from Midsummer by Derek Walcott.Their thick skulls bled with rancorwhen the riot police and the skinheads exchanged quipsyou could trace to the Sonnets, or the Moor’s eclipse.
Which are factors that influence a person’s perspective? Check all that apply.ageracegendernationalityappearance
Which words or phrases contain allusions? Check all that apply.Canadiansthe streets of Santa Festarted over againMaya Angelou’s booksearlier
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
Read the excerpt from Midsummer by Derek Walcott.With the stampeding hiss and scurry of green lemmings, midsummer’s leaves race to extinction like the roarof a Brixton riot tunneled by water hoses;they seethe toward autumn’s fire—it is in their nature,being men as well as leaves, to die for the sun.
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