Derek Walcott: Map of the New World: I, Archipelagoes

*Poem Title*	*Original Publication*	CP Page no
*Map of the New World: I, Archipelagoes*	The Fortunate Traveller, New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1981	413

Allusion to Classical figure Helen, Homer (‘a man with clouded eyes’)

Allusion to Classical place Troy

Relationship to Classical text The poem closes with the image of a poet plucking the first line of the Odyssey.

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