Derek Walcott (Love After Love)

Question 1

Full name of Love After Love poet

Answer 1

Sir Derek Alton Walcott

Question 2

What is Walcott’s message?

Answer 2

He illustrates that sometimes we lose our sense of selves and he advocates for us to practice self-love

Question 3

What are 3 methods that Walcott uses?

Answer 3

Direct address (to make self-love more personal), religious imagery (to make it seem like even God and Jesus were advocating for self-love), imperative (to command the reader to practice self-love so they feel like they have to).

Question 4

2 direct address quotations

Answer 4

1) ‘with elation you will greet yourself’
2) ‘who knows you by heart’

Question 5

Why does self- love need to represented personally?

Answer 5

people will realise that self- love is something only they can do for themselves because no one but them cares enough to do anything.

Question 6

religious imagery quotations

Answer 6

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself,’

Question 7

2 imperative quotations

Answer 7

1) Sit. Feast on your life.
2) Take down the love letters from the bookshelf