Blues Summary
BLUES – DEREK WALCOTT Derek Walcott (1930-2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992 besides he received many literary awards over the course of his career. In this poem Blues Walcott addresses the phenomenon of black male existence in the mid to late 20th Century US, through the symbolic code of blues (Black). Racism in the US comprises negative attitudes and views on race or ethnicity. It has been reflected in discriminatory laws, practices and actions including violence at various times. The poem is an interesting attempt addressing the racism and violence of American against other races. It went on the details of racism and it’s after effects. It is an autobiographical poem that the poet himself was being assaulted brutally by a group of Americans on a particular night as he surpasses into their region unknowingly. A group of five or six young guys were standing there in an attitude of pride or arrogance that the land belongs to