... the Spokane Indian Reservation where no one has ever arrived there by accident and looking for redemption in the form of Big Mom. If, on a literal level, one accepts that the guitar is a tool of the Devil (the Gentleman), then it is logical to assume that a similarly grim conclusion will befall the next owner of the ... flutes from the bones of the most beautiful horse to what is actually written on the monument at Horse Slaughter Camp, a brief description that almost heroically describes how Colonel G. Wright suppressed an Indian outbreak after two other victories against the Indians, ....

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... level of meaning to the title (without pressing this point too much) is the idea of Walcott hearing the poem as a far cry coming all the way across thousands of miles of ocean - the same routes, perhaps, as the Dutch ships of the late seventeenth century - to land in his accepting ear on the island of St. Lucia. He hears the cry coming to him on the wind. He writes, in the first line of ... images verging on caricature. "Only the worm, colonel of carrion cries: Waste no compassion on these separate dead!" He follows this surprising image with two very sharp lines about the foolishness o...

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