Monday, January 13, 2003

The Sea Is History Comments

Rating: 3.2

Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs?
Where is your tribal memory? Sirs,
in that gray vault. The sea. The sea
has locked them up. The sea is History.
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Joseph Dickson 03 June 2020

good i like this i like all nature

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Sweeney Prufrock 09 August 2019

Am I the only one reading slavery/emancipation/civil rights into this?

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Jamie G 30 October 2018

Yap Yap Yap Fantastic Work

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Robin Rambles On 24 August 2018

I love rocks and nature you brought the words nicely together thanks

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Sarah Daclan 10 July 2018

Ive been searching poems about history and I found this, great poem love it.

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Carlos Echeverria 08 January 2018

I read this poem out loud and the words came out of me from depths of my being, like they were written in me before I was born.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 08 January 2018

Such an interesting write by Derek Walcott👍👍👍

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Edward Kofi Louis 08 January 2018

Heavy as chaos! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Glen Kappy 08 January 2018

My first time reading this. For me it’s impressive as a sustained metaphor and for its descriptions of things in the sea and parallels of them to things above. -GK

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Ramesh T A 08 January 2018

Treasure of history is within sea! Many are unearthed and many more need to be found out to know human origin still and so, history has begun indeed!

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Deepak Kumar Pattanayak 08 January 2018

It seems like one risen from the bottom of the sea to be familiar with the evolution and manifestation of civilization called history..........very insightful........composed brilliantly........thanks for sharing

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Gamer_God_2005 14 December 2017

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Othuke Isaac Umukoro 11 November 2017

Derek Walcott is the greatest poet that ever lived. Such amazing worlds in words.

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Brian Jani 13 May 2014

Derek walcott Amazing poetic skills here

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Ahmad Shiddiqi 09 October 2008

powerful! keep writing! could you read and comment on my poems too? thank you.

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qerjbv1jbrv1 14 December 2017

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