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The short story written is 6. Wordworth is V.S. narrated to us Naipul cand from the perspective of a precautious child with an unusual intelligence and emotional quotient The story is and an easy and smooth read effortlenly dedes with heary topies of alienation, existential crisis and the effects of colonisation, fost freedom The Naiful on "the British colonies. story is semi cautobiographical as experiencer. draves from his own life's The story starts with the Miguel being street in visited he hospitable homes Cort of spain punctually by a set of beggars. The people donate generously to these beggars" them but new are who openly exploit suspicious of any beggar who may really be The narrator states that at 4, came a needy. one afternoon the most unusual visitor native dressed in Western clothes ( black trousers, white shirt and a hat). He spoke perfect English with a lot of effort which made it sound It is clear that the fake. man was was to disconnect trying himself from his native identity and had created a new one. He affectionately calls the narrator 'sonny" and makes the unusual request of being given permission to watch the beer in the igru gre palm trees of his yord The boy puzzled and his mother. instantly suspicious of the man's intentions. She but instructs the eye and on man the grudgingly allows him boy strange squat near to keep an man The boy the trees and sal watch the bees for an hour. The man is boy had raddened never to know that the h done this before The man s reveals to the narrator that he i ia foet and that too the best the world, his wordworth where B is clear that the name being B. tood for Blak. It man was an exapist d who lived in his imaginary Utopian world of which he is the best poet The man is delusional about his foctic abilities because he compares himself a failed poet, to William f Wordsworth poets who he Wordsworth on one the greatest Natur refers to as White the basis of his color. He says that they both vas then they his love beauty of are brothers love Nature equally. To prove for Nature, he says a the morning glory flower can make him cry as poets are sensitive enough to hery He tries to on not disappointed as he was to cry for anything. "Greates but is being rejected to the willing to on quite used poet's tragedy Ceople help the were "so called beggars bout were unwilling to support poets who try to live respectfully. The boy was Birzzled because B Wordswodh had not sold any poem till now Before leaving he made the observation boy too was that the poet as good as him. The boy prayed to meet him again. After a week, he found & Wordsworth waiting for him at the corner of Miguel Street and andbergot invited to his place on Alberto street to have the 'best' mangoes of his mango tree obviously On the best in Port of Spain. returning home, he wan thrashing by his mother. late. to his never In angor, friend's return. the boy geven a good for being ran baikk Swearing to 8 Wordsworth calms him down and takes him for a walk. Without realising, he is boy too into an torning the escapist like himself. Tying on the introduced to the the bay of was the vastuen of Nature and felt very important because of the attention lavished on him. 3 Words- worth then told him about the various. constellation of which the boy only remembered Drion as gazing was an adult. Theres star rudely interrupted by a police officer wanting to know what they were the doing there. B. Wordsworth took the question said that he too to another level and had been Toying Ar know that for the past 40 years! unusual but strong friendship is formed between the social misfit poet and the unusual boy. They both had similar temperaments and both were absence of a father figure boy's life is filled by vice versa. lonely. The in the poet and i The poet makes the boy promise that he will always be keep itheir friendship a secret. t Alberto street had y an unusual amount! The foet's house on a single noom with of greenery surounding it. It was the forts fursonal paradise and showed the poet's- connection with Nature. The boy in curious. to know why it is answers ferson by narrating about a overgrown. B Wordsworth a story in third girl poct and a boy fact