The small hushed waves' repeated fresh collapse / Up the warm yellow sand (Larkin 9)For much of modern culture, the sea cannot be represented; it is too large for history, too vast for culture, to fluid for any stable meaning. (Mentz 2) The deployment of maritime settings is conspicuous in the works of Shakespeare from the earliest plays such as The Comedy of Errors to the late romances which are almost inundated (from the Latin word unda, meaning "wave") by the presence of the sea.