The reading questions to go with this are those for Derek Walcott and Eavan Boland (for week 9)
A list of the intertextual references in Derek Walcott’s “Ruins of a Great House” are available in the course notes. Follow some of them up in some depth. Not necessarily all of them, but I strongly recommend at least “Urn Burial,” the Donne and maybe one or two others. Then survey all of them. Is there a theme? Collectively, do they suggest something that Walcott may be getting at? Oh, and I chose this poem because of “Burnt Norton” (hint).
