{"id":22012,"date":"2024-04-18T22:18:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T22:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/discuss-this-statement-by-making-specific-reference-to-several-literary-and-or-narrative-strategies-that-the-writer-deploys\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T22:18:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T22:18:34","slug":"discuss-this-statement-by-making-specific-reference-to-several-literary-and-or-narrative-strategies-that-the-writer-deploys","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/discuss-this-statement-by-making-specific-reference-to-several-literary-and-or-narrative-strategies-that-the-writer-deploys\/","title":{"rendered":"discuss this statement by making specific reference to several literary and\/or narrative strategies that the writer deploys."},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/p>\n

Caribbean writers have adopted an anticolonial, \u201cwriting back\u201d ethos. With reference to <\/span>either<\/strong> <\/span>Derek Walcott\u2019s \u201cThe Sea is History\u201d discuss this statement by making specific reference to several literary and\/or narrative strategies that the writer deploys.<\/p>\n


<\/strong><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n


<\/strong><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/strong><\/div>\n

<\/strong><\/div>\n

Original Text:<\/p>\n

“The Sea is History” by Derek Walcott
\n<\/strong>
\nWhere are your monuments, your battles, martyrs?
\nWhere is your tribal memory? Sirs,
\nin that grey vault. The sea. The sea
\nhas locked them up. The sea is History.<\/p>\n

First, there was the heaving oil,
\nheavy as chaos;
\nthen, like a light at the end of a tunnel,<\/p>\n

the lantern of a caravel,
\nand that was Genesis.
\nThen there were the packed cries,
\nthe shit, the moaning:<\/p>\n

Exodus.
\nBone soldered by coral to bone,
\nmosaics
\nmantled by the benediction of the shark\u2019s shadow,<\/p>\n

that was the Ark of the Covenant.
\nThen came from the plucked wires
\nof sunlight on the sea floor<\/p>\n

the plangent harps of the Babylonian bondage,
\nas the white cowries clustered like manacles
\non the drowned women,<\/p>\n

and those were the ivory bracelets
\nof the Song of Solomon,
\nbut the ocean kept turning blank pages<\/p>\n

looking for History.
\nThen came the men with eyes heavy as anchors
\nwho sank without tombs,<\/p>\n

brigands who barbecued cattle,
\nleaving their charred ribs like palm leaves on the shore,
\nthen the foaming, rabid maw<\/p>\n

of the tidal wave swallowing Port Royal,
\nand that was Jonah,
\nbut where is your Renaissance?<\/p>\n

Sir, it is locked in them sea-sands
\nout there past the reef\u2019s moiling shelf,
\nwhere the men-o\u2019-war floated down;<\/p>\n

strop on these goggles, I\u2019ll guide you there myself.
\nIt\u2019s all subtle and submarine,
\nthrough colonnades of coral,<\/p>\n

past the gothic windows of sea-fans
\nto where the crusty grouper, onyx-eyed,
\nblinks, weighted by its jewels, like a bald queen;<\/p>\n

and these groined caves with barnacles
\npitted like stone
\nare our cathedrals,<\/p>\n

and the furnace before the hurricanes:
\nGomorrah. Bones ground by windmills
\ninto marl and cornmeal,<\/p>\n

and that was Lamentations\u2014
\nthat was just Lamentations,
\nit was not History;<\/p>\n

then came, like scum on the river\u2019s drying lip,
\nthe brown reeds of villages
\nmantling and congealing into towns,<\/p>\n

and at evening, the midges\u2019 choirs,
\nand above them, the spires
\nlancing the side of God<\/p>\n

as His son set, and that was the New Testament.<\/p>\n

Then came the white sisters clapping
\nto the waves\u2019 progress,
\nand that was Emancipation\u2014<\/p>\n

jubilation, O jubilation\u2014
\nvanishing swiftly
\nas the sea\u2019s lace dries in the sun,<\/p>\n

but that was not History,
\nthat was only faith,
\nand then each rock broke into its own nation;<\/p>\n

then came the synod of flies,
\nthen came the secretarial heron,
\nthen came the bullfrog bellowing for a vote,<\/p>\n

fireflies with bright ideas
\nand bats like jetting ambassadors
\nand the mantis, like khaki police,<\/p>\n

and the furred caterpillars of judges
\nexamining each case closely,
\nand then in the dark ears of ferns<\/p>\n

and in the salt chuckle of rocks
\nwith their sea pools, there was the sound
\nlike a rumour without any echo<\/p>\n

of History, really beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caribbean writers have adopted an anticolonial, \u201cwriting back\u201d ethos. With reference to either Derek Walcott\u2019s \u201cThe Sea is History\u201d discuss this statement by making specific reference to several literary and\/or narrative strategies that the writer deploys. Original Text: “The Sea is History” by Derek Walcott Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs? Where is your tribal memory? Sirs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/22012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/22012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=22012"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=22012"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=22012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}