Two poems that are completely opposite of each other, ironically both talk about two particular issues. One of them is obviously the Titanic. The other one is Fate. "Convergence of the Twain" written by Thomas Hardy in 1912, and "titanic", written be Slavitt, in 1983, both deal with that issue, in one way or the other. "The Convergence of Twain" states in the fourth stanza, "The imminent will that stirs and urges everything" and "Titanic" states more simply in the 2 stanzas, "To go down...We all go down. In these newt two paragraphs I will try to explain how these poems affected me and how different they actually are.
"The Convergence of Twain" is a poem that you have to read closely because of its sophisticated vocabulary and deep content. If you were just reading the poem as if you were going to read "Titanic" you wouldn't get the whole depth of the poem. For example, stanza 3 says, "T
Although these two poems had different themes, and attitudes toward the great tragedy, they both dealt with the matter of fate. It seems that both authors had in mind that the Titanic was suppose to sink. And a lot of people would agree. There are a lot of things leading up to this conclusion. How the weather just happened to calm down and get really cold. How this really experienced captain just happened to ignore all the iceberg warnings. People say this was an accident that was never supposed to happen. They say it was just a big mistake, But was it really? What if there's something that is above us that decides what happens and we can't control what happens. Like no matter what choices we make, we are going to end up where we are suppose to be. Or maybe it was all one big joke by some rich men going in accordance to the book, "Futility." I guess its up to you to decide what you accept as true.
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