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Comment on an interpretation of Derek walcott's crusoe's journal​

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An Interpretation of Derek Walcott's "Crusoe's Journal"

"My Crusoe, then, is Adam, Christopher Columbus, God, a missionary, a beachcomber, and his interpreter, Daniel Defoe. He is Adam because he is the first inhabitant of this second paradise. He is Columbus because he has discovered this new world, by accident, by fatality. He is God because he teaches himself to control his creation, he rules the world he has made, and also, because he is to Friday, a white concept of Godhead. He is a missionary because he instructs Friday in the uses of religion [. . .] He is a beachcomber because I have imagined him as one of those figures of adolescent literature, some derelict of Conrad or Stevenson [. . .] and finally, he is also Daniel Defoe, because the journal of Crusoe, which is Defoe's journal, is written in prose, not in poetry, and our literature, the pioneers of our public literature have expressed themselves in prose. [. . .] I have tried to show that Crusoe's survival is not purely physical, not a question of the desolation of his environment, but a triumph of will [. . .] We contemplate our spirit by the detritus of the past."

-- Walcott, "The Figure of Crusoe"

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