Derek Walcott (1930) was born in Castries, Saint Lucia, a remote Caribbean island in the West Indies. His father, Warwick, was a bohemian artist; he died when Walcott was very young. “I grew up in that obscure Caribbean poet,” he later wrote in a poem about his family, “where my bastard father named his Warwick for me.” Walcott's mother, Alix, was a teacher. She was very educated and taught poetry to her children. A central theme running through Walcott's works is his search for identity and history. From the beginning, he felt intensely the antagonism between the cultural heritage of the Old World and the traditions of the New World. This seems to revolve around the “Quest”, the quest for their identity because they have the feeling of having a fragmented personality because they are divided between dual heritage and mixed race. Although Caribbean people are of two bloods, their skin color is dark and they have English education and Western culture. Now they don't know how to decide. They are unsure whether to abandon their African ancestors or continue their debt to Western education and culture. It is this concern that preoccupies the intellectual group of the Antilles. They therefore seem to consider themselves divided men. Walcott attempts to find expressions to express the difficulties inherent in Caribbean identity. In “A Far Cry from Africa,” he describes his disparate dilemma in rather blunt formulations: “The gorilla struggles with the superman. I am poisoned by the blood of both. Where should I turn, divided to the core? (Dutt, 2002, lines 26-28) He expresses how torn he is between “Africa and the English language”. Derek Walcott often describes himself as a "bastard"; both grandmothers were African and both grandfathers were European. He hated...... middle of paper...... to feel the true beginning of their story either as a rumor without any echo, or as its product by the waves. He says: “There was the sound/like a rumor without any echo/of History, truly beginning” (lines 78-80). The poem ends with a glimmer of hope, as Walcott believes that their story was conscious, but now, after their independence, each individual story will be written or will be in their memory. Creative poets such as Walcott attempt to recreate their history by writing such poems. With his creative skills, he tries to recreate their past moments. By drawing analogies from the Bible, he concludes that biblical analogies are more mythical than historical. He tries to give voice to the communities because his island has historically remained an orphan island. He tries to find answers to the division between blacks and whites.