Forgive My Guilt

In this song, the Ol Higue tells of her frustration with her lifestyle. She does non like the fact that she some periods has to parade around, in the form of a fireball, without her flake at night. She explains that she has to do this in install to sc are people, as advantageously as to conduct baby lineage. She explains that she would rather acquire this blood via cooked food, like every-one else. Her worst rush is the pain of salt, as well as having to count rice grains. She exhibits some herb of grace for her lifestyle only if implies that she cannot resist a babys smell, as well as its gross(a) blood.The impertinentlyness of the baby tempts the Ol Higue, and she cannot resist because she is an old muliebrity who fears death, which can only be avoided by consuming the babys blood. She affirms her usefulness in the arrangement of things, however, by claiming that she provides mformer(a)s with a ready for their fears (this macrocosm the death of a child), as well as some-one to institutionalize when the evil that they call for their child, in moments of tired frustration, is realized. She implies that she entrust neer die, so long as women turn back having babies.Poems Ol Higue and Le Loupgarou The what Content Theme The supernatural, stories use to explain unknown or phenomena. Beliefs held by orderliness consumption culture Ol Higue name inclined to woman who haunts babies this results in affection or death. Practices govern how this situation is do by use of salt, rice grain and the sun. This vox populi has held its root and will not go away because as long as babies get sick and die blame will be cast on Ol Higue.The Form Layout of poem3 stanzas indite in free verse this facilitates the compositors case of poem spectacular monologue fibers expression of her feelings. This also allows for self-contemplation as well as appointment of the reader/ attendant to participate in the situation. The How Structure Dramat ic monologue enunciation use of colloquial and expression relating to society eg. dry-up woman Movements among and within paragraphs reader/ attendant invited to sympathize with her pleading to listeners then to acknowledgment of actions acceptance of relevance to society and mothers. drop of punctuation mark and lineation question marks, ellipsis, exclamation facilitates the dramatic monologue style, supports the changes in emotions and the need for the listener/reader to see from her point of view. Use of imagery few drops of baby blood blood running in new veins, fly come(literal and figurative) Believe me- inadequate line to prepare the reader and change integrity what is to come an acceptable truth. See Notes on English B pg. 32-33 Comparison to other poemLe Loupgarou a sonnet hence more structure is sheer in terms of lineation, rhyme project Use of end and eye rhymes, poem divided into an octave and sestet Delving in the world of the supernatural a realistic situation a man Le Brun being used and told as something supernatural. fib told as a rumour fragment about him turning into a werewolf this is to both facilitate the extent of his actions what happened to him and the womens dislike of him. Use of imagery and literary devices oxymoron Christian witches howled and lugged. some(prenominal) poems Caribbean in nature custom and tradition affects practices done and treatment given to and by people. OlHigues story facilitates the mothers account for the unexplained (sick or dead baby) period the story of Le Brun and what has been added on by the women facilitates their gossip and what the community holds on to. You will observe that both poems deal with the supernatural. The Soucouyant is the loveseat of the Le Loupgarou. They both make a pact with the devil to engage in mysterious and fiendish dealings. They both are greedy and are ruined by their greed.They both evoke fear in the people around them. Derek Walcott was born i n 1930 in the town of Castries in nonesuch Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the lesser Antilles. The experience of growing up on the isolated volcanic island, an ex-British colony, has had a knockout influence on Walcotts life and work. Both his grandmothers were said to have been the descendants of slaves. His father, a Bohemian watercolourist, died when Derek and his twin brother, Roderick, were only a few years old. His mother ran the towns Methodist school.After studying at St.Marys College in his autochthonal island and at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, Walcott locomote in 1953 to Trinidad, where he has worked as theater and art critic. At the age of 18, he made his de only with 25 Poems, but his breakthrough came with the collection of poems, In a Green Night (1962). In 1959, he founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop which produced many of his azoic plays. Walcott has been an assiduous traveller to other countries but has always, not least in his effor ts to build an indigenous drama, felt himself deeply-rooted in Caribbean society with its cultural fusion of African, Asiatic and European elements.For many years, he has divided his sequence between Trinidad, where he has his home as a writer, and Boston University, where he teaches belles-lettres and creative writing. From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1991-1995, Editor Sture whole?n, World Scientific Publishing Co. , Singapore, 1997 This archives/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later redact and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always assign the source as shown above.