In addition, at the time the poem was written, the poet's country of birth, the island of St. ... As Walcott is divided in two, so too is the poem. ... Poem Summary The first three lines depict the poem's setting on the African plain, or veldt. ... The migration of both whites and Indians continued, unabated. ... On August 4, 1950, Mau Mau was declared illegal, even though the government knew little about it except that militant Kikuyus were winning over, coercing, or forcing other Kikuyus to take an oath against foreign rule. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In New York, British director Peter Brook's nine-hour production of an ancient Hindu epic poem, The Mahabharata, has lately been playing to packed houses and considerable critical praise. ... When the London merchants of what became the East India Company first sent ships to the East in 1601, they were not bound for India at all but for the Spice Islands of the Dutch East Indies, and the English traders who set foot on the subcontinent a little later actually sought to avoid conquest. ... By then, the company had carried home such Indian terms as "bungalow," "verandah," "punch," "dungaree...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate