Derek Walcott Trivia
This Caribbean island nation was Walcott's birthplace.
Saint Lucia
Name some of main themes explored in Derek Walcott's poems.
Loss, memory, passage of time, history, cultural identity, self-discovery, renewal, and resilience.
This 14-line poetic form consists of 3 quatrains and a couplet.
A sonnet
Kendrick Lamar was born in this West Coast city in 1987.
Compton
What is the Genre of Kendrick's musical works?
Rap/Hip-Hop
Walcott won the Nobel Prize for Literature in this year.
1992
Name 2 of Walcott's poems analyzed in our project:
Dark August, Egypt,Tobago, Love After Love, Midsummer, Tobago, and a City's Death by Fire.
Stating two contradictory or opposing terms together is known as this figure of speech.
Oxymoron
Lamar's 2012 debut studio album that helped launch him to fame was titled this.
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
Name 2 of Kendrick's songs analyzed in our project:
The Blacker the Berry, DUCKWORTH, Mortal Man, FEAR, and Alright.
True or False: Walcott is of mixed racial heritage, which often influenced the messages of his poetry.
True
What literary devices does Walcott frequently employ in his poems?
Vivid imagery, sensory details, metaphorical language, and symbolism.
What type of Rhyme Scheme is this?
"On the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool,
In the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool,
He was splashing... enjoying the jungle's great joys...
When Horton the elephant heard a small noise."
Coupled Rhyme (AABB)
What is Kendrick Lamar's most commonly used nickname?
K.Dot
What is one of the general themes explored in Kendrick's work?
The exploration of identity, social issues, personal struggles, and the human experience.
At age 14, Walcott published his first poem, a Miltonic, religious poem, in the newspaper The Voice of St Lucia.
What is the poem named?
“1944”
Name a literary device used in "A City's Death by Fire."
Vivid imagery or metaphorical language
This Japanese poetic form has 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
The Haiku
His collaboration with this Pop phenom garnered Lamar his first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100.
Taylor Swift
Name the Kendrick song we analyzed that explores the struggles of being Black in America.
The Blacker the Berry
In addition to poetry, Walcott also wrote plays.
How many did he write in his lifetime?
More than 20
Which one of Walcott's poems juxtaposes two unique locations?
Egypt, Tobago
This American poet wrote "The Road Not Taken" and won 4 Pulitzer Prizes.
Robert Frost
In 2018, Lamar made history by becoming the first non-_____ or _____ work to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Classical or Jazz
In which song does Kendrick include a snippet of an interview with famed Rap artist Tupac Shakur?
Mortal Man