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The wistful conclusion: "[P]erhaps films would have allowed him to evade the gangsta rap typecasting forced on him by the music industry" (Richard Harrington, the Washington Post).
Jesus is wistful, more than angry, at the continued success of the devil, but he modestly hopes that he is himself still of some use to the poor old human race.
And they eventually seem to concur in their wistful conclusion that if Celebration is a bit of a corporate harlot, it yet has a heart of gold, or at least of honest brass, and does not deserve the easy contempt of its oh-so-sophisticated detractors.
Wistful, wry, at times valedictory (the Monet poem playfully offers the poet's own epitaph), The Bounty is one of Walcott's most inviting volumes, incorporating some of his best work since The Star-Apple Kingdom of 1979.
Sifting through these relics left Yates in a more wistful mood than usual.