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Summary of the sea is history by derek walcott

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Derek Walcott, author of The Sea Is History, grew up in Saint Lucia, a former Caribbean colony of France and England. ... From the beginning, The Sea Is History poses question about history and memory. The first stanza reads “Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs?First appeared in “The Star Apple Kingdom”, the poem ‘The Sea is History’ is part of Walcott’s autobiographical collection, Another life. This collection of poems stretches the poet’s sense of disillusionment beyond his immediate origin. By taking help from the histories of other suffering nations, Walcott describes the condition of his own people. In this poem he makes an experiment with the verse pattern and borrows the structure of terza rima from Dante’s Divine Comedy. The poem also echoes Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”.