“The Spoiler’s Return” by Walcott talks about the corruption in Trinidadian society. Examine the poem and critically analyse it.

These two lines serve as a refrain underscoring the bleakness and despondency of Spoiler’s vision of the Caribbean and of Trinidad. His realization that his grief is misspent is expressed as self-rebuke. He realizes that his “pearls of grief’ are like water off a duck’s back.

This popular English idiom is made Caribbean by affixing another comparison with it. Spoiler’s tears are also like water slipping off the smooth surface of a dasheen leaf. The majority of the populace remains unaffected by what is happening around them, turning a blind eye and a deaf  ear to it, insulating them self against the “truth” which upsets Spoiler Bewailing the lack of intelligence which makes people of colour objects of aesthetic appreciation I without in any way alleviating their material conditions he says, “black still poor, though black is beautiful.

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