derek walcott

• 1992'de nobel edebiyat ödülünü alan şair. saint lucia adasında doğmuş, bu küçük volkanik adada geçirdiği çocukluk yılları şiirlerini büyük ölçüde etkilemiş.
  
  "crusoe's island" isimli şiirinden:
  
  "upon this rock the bearded hermit built
  his eden:
  goats, corn crop, fort, parasol, garden,
  bible for sabbath, all the joys
  but one
  which sent him howling for a human voice.
  exiled by a flaming sun
  the rotting nut, bowled in the surf,
  became his own brain rotting from the guilt
  of heaven without his kind,
  crazed by such paradisal calm
  the spinal shadow of a palm
  built keel and gunwale in his mind."