Read the excerpt from Midsummer by Derek Walcott. the child’s fairy tale of an antic England—fairy rings, thatched cottages fenced with dog roses, a green gale lifting the hair of Warwickshire. The allusion to the country province of Warwickshire

Warwickshire is evoked through images of a peaceful, storybook countryside: fairy rings, thatched cottages, and green fields. Those gentle images contrast with the violence and unrest of the Brixton riot scenes, sharpening the difference between the child’s imagined England and the riots. The allusion does not identify where Walcott is from or explain where people went.

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