Forgive My Guilt

In this song, the Ol Higue tells of her frustration with her lifestyle. She does non like the fact that she some ages has to parade around, in the form of a fireball, without her skin at night. She explains that she has to do this in order to scare people, as rise as to acquire tiddler kindred. She explains that she would rather acquire this blood via cooked food, like every-one else. Her worst complaint is the pain in the ass of salt, as hearty as having to count rice scintillas. She exhibits some rue for her lifestyle but implies that she cannot resist a babys smell, as well as its pure blood.The newness of the baby tempts the Ol Higue, and she cannot resist because she is an old woman who fears death, which can unless be avoided by consuming the babys blood. She affirms her usefulness in the scheme of things, however, by claiming that she provides mothers with a name for their fears (this cosmos the death of a child), as well as some-one to blame when the evil that th ey wish for their child, in moments of tired frustration, is realized. She implies that she allow for never die, so long as women keep having babies.Poems Ol Higue and Le Loupgarou The what suffice Theme The transcendental, stories used to explain unknown or phenomena. Beliefs held by association custom culture Ol Higue name given to woman who haunts babies this results in unwellness or death. Practices govern how this situation is treated use of salt, rice grain and the sun. This belief has held its root and go forth not go away because as long as babies get sick and die blame will be cast on Ol Higue.The Form Layout of poem3 stanzas indite in free verse this facilitates the type of poem dramatic soliloquy personas expression of her feelings. This also allows for introspection as well as involvement of the subscriber/listener to participate in the situation. The How twist Dramatic monologue Diction use of colloquial and expression relating to parliamentary pr ocedure eg. dry-up woman Movements among and within paragraphs reader/listener invited to sympathize with her pleading to listeners thus to justification of actions acceptance of relevance to inn and mothers.Use of punctuation and lineation top dog marks, ellipsis, exclamation facilitates the dramatic monologue style, supports the changes in emotions and the need for the listener/reader to see from her point of view. Use of imagery few drops of baby blood blood running in new veins, fly come(literal and figurative) reckon me-short line to prepare the reader and solidify what is to come an satisfactory truth. See Notes on English B pg. 32-33 Comparison to other poemLe Loupgarou a sonnet hence more structure is spare in terms of lineation, rhyme scheme Use of end and sum rhymes, poem split up into an octave and sestet Delving in the world of the supernatural a realistic situation a man Le Brun being used and told as something supernatural. Story told as a rumour character about him turning into a werewolf this is to some(prenominal) facilitate the design of his actions what happened to him and the womens dislike of him. Use of imagery and literary devices oxymoron Christian witches howled and lugged. two poems Caribbean in nature custom and tradition affects practices done and treatment given to and by people. OlHigues story facilitates the mothers explanation for the unexplained (sick or dead baby) magic spell the story of Le Brun and what has been added on by the women facilitates their gossip and what the community holds on to. You will observe that both poems deal with the supernatural. The Soucouyant is the counterpart of the Le Loupgarou. They both make a pact with the devil to engage in somber and fiendish dealings. They both are greedy and are ruined with their greed.They both evoke fear in the people around them. Derek Walcott was innate(p) in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the windward Islands in th e Lesser Antilles. The experience of growing up on the apart(p) volcanic island, an ex-British colony, has had a strong influence on Walcotts life and work. Both his grandmothers were said to have been the descendants of slaves. His father, a Bohemian watercolourist, died when Derek and his twin brother, Roderick, were only a few years old. His mother ran the towns Methodist school.After studying at St.Marys College in his native island and at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, Walcott moved in 1953 to Trinidad, where he has worked as theatre and art critic. At the age of 18, he made his debut with 25 Poems, but his breakthrough came with the collection of poems, In a Green Night (1962). In 1959, he founded the Trinidad Theatre store which produced many of his early plays. Walcott has been an assiduous traveller to other countries but has always, not least in his efforts to create an indigenous drama, felt himself deeply-rooted in Caribbean society with its cultural fus ion of African, Asiatic and European elements.For many years, he has divided his time between Trinidad, where he has his home as a writer, and capital of Massachusetts University, where he teaches literature and creative writing. From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1991-1995, Editor Sture All?n, earth Scientific Publishing Co. , Singapore, 1997 This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was after edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. 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