Example sentences for: walcott

How can you use “walcott” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There's a risk of sentimentality in Walcott's praise of the Caribbean.

  • As he improvises on themes from the Western elegiac tradition, in which spring consoles for the losses of winter, Walcott finds that certain notes don't sound in the tropics, where there is "no climate, no calendar except for this bountiful day."

  • Despite its upbeat title, The Bounty is a book of elegies, a response to the "many deaths, nothing short of a massacre"--including the deaths of his mother and his close friend, the poet Joseph Brodsky--that Walcott has endured during his seventh decade.

  • Such remarks, in any case, are part of Walcott's own emerging self-definition as a writer.

  • In his pleasure in the sheer variousness of paradises found and lost, Walcott glories in what the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins called "dappled things."


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