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Traffic roars down the broad Corso Umberto I to the pivotal Piazza Municipio to serve the docks or spin off into the commercial district behind Santa Lucia, the teeming historic center of Spaccanapoli, or the residential districts of Vomero and Posillipo.
I dream'd this mortal part of mineWas Metamorphoz'd to a Vine;Which crawling one and every wayEnthralled my dainty Lucia .Me thought, her long small legs & thighsI with my Tendrils did surprize;Her Belly, Buttocks, and her WasteBy my soft Nerv'lits were embrac'd :About her head I writhing hung,And with rich clusters (hid amongThe leaves) her temples I behung:So that my Lucia seem'd to meYoung Bacchus ravisht by his tree.My curles about her neck did craule,And armes and hands they did enthrall;So that she could not freely stir,(All parts there made one prisoner.)
(Two of the children died of pneumonia soon after these inexplicable events; the third, Lucia, now in her 90s, has been a cloistered Carmelite nun in Coimbra since 1929 and makes very few public appearances.)
Benson's action picture in Lucia in London (Chapter 8): “Georgie stepped on a beautiful pansy.”
This culture-nature split corresponds, in Walcott's personal mythology, with a split in himself: his European education and Caribbean childhood; his two homes, in Boston and St. Lucia; the two races, white and black, of his ancestry; and "the two languages I know--one so rich/ in its imperial intimacies, its echo of privilege,/ the other like the orange words of a hillside in drought--/ but my love of both wide as the Atlantic is large."
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