This culture-nature split corresponds , in Walcott 's personal mythology , with a split in his European education and Caribbean childhood ; his two homes , in Boston and St. Lucia ; the two races , white and black , of his ancestry ; and the two languages I know--one so rich / in its imperial intimacies , its echo of privilege , / the other like the orange words of a hillside in drought-- / but my love of both wide as the Atlantic is large .
Walcott grew up in the Caribbean and was educated in Europe .