| 1. Robinson Crusoe as a prototype colonizer in the poem--the quote refers to his indifference to the environment around him; the islanders, on the other hand, are his "good Fridays"
2. "Walcott's Crusoe is the emptied, receptive self. He is Columbus, byaccident discovering the New World; he is Adam in a second Eden, giving its names. Unlike Prospero, he is demotic, for 'Crusoe is no lord of magic, duke, prince. He does not possess the island he inhabits….He acts, not by authority, but by conscience.'" --Louis James (Caribbean Literature in English. London: Longman, 1999. 179.)
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