One of this author's poems ends with the command "Hold hard then, heart.
One of this author's poems ends with the command "Hold hard then, heart. This way at least you live." This author of "The Fist" quoted the lines "Farewell, green fields, farewell, ye happy groves" in a poem whose speaker's eyes "burned from the ashen prose of Donne." He wrote that he was "poisoned with the blood" of the gorilla and the superman in a poem which laments "brutish necessity" wiping its hands on "the napkin of a dirty cause." This poet charged that "a smell of dead limes quickens in the nose the necessity of empire" in a poem comparing England to the title decrepit structure. Another of his poems ends by asking "How can I face such slaughter and be cool? How can I turn from Africa and live?" For 10 points, name this author of "Ruins of a Great House" and "A Far Cry From Africa," who used his native St. Lucia as the setting for his long poem Omeros.
One of this author's poems ends with the command "Hold hard then, heart.
Derek Walcott