Jonathan Culler emphasized that Aristotle believed poetry was a way of letting go of any intense emotions, and from the out burst of emotions the ignorance that once took part of a persons life now became knowledge to themselves and to others. While reading “The Sea is History “ Derek Walcott starts off by asking a rhetorical question“Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs? Where is your tribal memory? Sirs,”and than continues to point out specific events in history that took away people’s joy, freedom, tragic events kept happening one after the other and how time went by with no change being made until years past by.

Now when we look back at these events we see them as history and we learned from the mistakes that happened and it really impressed me because I never really thought of poetry in this way I always assumed poetry would be romantic or help describe a joyful event in someone’s life.