Walcott: The Sea is History (how it connects to Children of the Sea)

I think the connection between these two works lies with the sea, being that it is something that both the story and the poem seem to revolve around, and what the sea means in both works. In Walcott's poem he describes the sea as a "grey vault" that "has locked them up," alluding to the lives that have been lost at sea. In the story "Children of the Sea," Danticat's young man talks about how the sea is deadly and merciless "...like the sharks that live there. It has no mercy."