"Sea Grapes" shows that the poet tried his best to break through the barriers of European cultural traditions, embarked on his own independent creative path and began to form his own unique creative style. There is no conflict between Caribbean environment and European literature in his early works.
Another life, an autobiographical poem, is a new starting point for Walcott's artistic life. He abandoned the complicated short poem style and thought about his rural life from a new perspective. 1999 The long narrative poem "Omilos" is Walcott's masterpiece, which is over 300 pages long and divided into 64 chapters. Drawing lessons from the framework of Homer's epic Iliad and Odyssey, the work describes the culture and customs of the Caribbean with great momentum, depicts the vast social life picture of the Caribbean, and also reflects the fate and challenges faced by the Caribbean people in the process of marching into human civilization. This work is called "the solemn epic of the Caribbean", so Walcott is also called "the contemporary Homer".
Walcott's poetry is the result of the blending of African culture, European culture, Caribbean culture and oriental culture, and the result of his tolerance consciousness and independent exploration and pioneering spirit. The theme of the poem is rich and colorful, the style is novel and changeable, the form is heavy and the rhythm is harmonious. The painter's keen insight enables him to truly describe natural scenery, carefully observe social life, and quickly capture subtle feelings. Rich perceptual images and metaphors greatly enrich the expressive force of his poems. The conciseness of poetry benefits from the influence of China's ancient poetry to some extent. Walcott's literary career began with 25 poems published for the first time at the age of 18. What really stood out was his poetry collection Green Night published in 1962. He loves traveling, but his works are also full of local flavor, and often blend into the local customs and cultural characteristics of Africa, Asia and Europe, which makes his poems rich in language and profound in cultural heritage, and often gives people a strange aesthetic feeling. In addition, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature by the Swedish Academy of Literature with 1992, including poetry anthology "Sea Grapes", "The Rest of My Life on the Beach" and the play "Dream of the Monkey Mountain" and "The Last Carnival".
Known as "the best poet in English literature today" (in broschi). In his works, he explores and thinks about the history, politics, folk customs and scenery of the Caribbean, which has a strong sense of history. His lyric poems show his thoughts and feelings about eternal themes such as love, death and memory. Considering his background, his birthplace in the Caribbean, his African and European ancestry, he formed "his own poetic field, independent of any tradition he inherited". The Swedish Academy in the literary world believes that he is "loyal to three things-the Caribbean where he lives, English and his African ancestors." This seemingly contradictory relationship runs through his poems. His epic, known as one of the most important works in the 20th century, attempts to reproduce the process of modern people seeking spiritual home. Walcott is not only an outstanding poet, but also his achievements in drama creation are quite remarkable. The main repertoires include the historical drama Henry Christopher (1950), which takes English medieval historical legends as the main plot, and the epic drama Gong, Drum and Color (1958), which explores people's reaction to history by describing four historical figures: explorer Columbus, conqueror Raleigh, rebel Tu Sheng and martyr Gordon. In addition, there are style drama The Sea of Pigeons (1954) and moral drama Tijin and His Brothers (1958). The hero of the former is a brave old fisherman in the Caribbean, and the hero of the latter is a nobody who is good at playing tricks on people with his own wisdom. Dream on the Monkey Mountain (197 1), published in 1970s, is Walcott's representative work, with rich content, profound meaning and strong symbolic significance. Through the story of an old man who burned charcoal fantasizing about becoming an African emperor, it shows the historical development process of struggle and interdependence between local people and colonists in political and cultural fields. Walcott's other plays include The Clown of Xavier (1974) and Oh, Babylon! (1976), Memories (1977), Armistice Day (1978), and mime (1978). Among them, "Oh, Babylon!" It shows the depravity of the modern world, and Armistice Day focuses on the personality weakness of the upper-middle class in Trinidad.