Derek Walcott: Early Pompeian

*Poem Title*	*Original Publication*	CP Page no
*Early Pompeian*	The Fortunate Traveller, New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1981	446-451

Allusion to Classical figure The blind Fates, Persephone (images of pomegranate and a deathly entry into womanhood).

Allusion to Classical place Pompeii, the Underworld

Classical/post-Classical intertexts Prefaced by a quotation from Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound (1820).

Classical Receptions in Drama and Poetry in English from c.1970