In Chapter 5 of Rhetoric, Poetics, and Poetry by Culler, Culler claims that there are four master tropes as rhetorical figures mostly used in poems that are metonymy. metaphor, synecdoche, and irony. Metaphor is comparing something to something, I think it is the most important technique in language usage in both poems and modern words. It can provide readers a better and easier understanding so that more effective information exchange can be achieved. In the poem of “The sea is history”, Derek Walcott uses metaphor a lot all over the poem, he compares the sea to history, compares emancipation jubilation to the faith, and almost finished the whole poem with metaphor figure. It is hard to understand what he really wants to utter without cultural and religious knowledge background, but viewers still can get the feelings through the metaphor based on the most basic knowledge.
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I agree with you, Derek Walcott did use a lot of metaphor throughout his poem. The metaphor in his poem helped me understand what its about.
Hi, I agree with your opinion that Derek Walcott did use a lot of metaphor on his poem which is help me to understand about the poem.