As for a strict word for word explanation of the poem, it is basically a description of the sinking of the Titanic. Everyone knows that on April 14, 1912 the largest ship afloat, the Titanic, collided with a mammoth iceberg in the North Atlantic and subsequently sunk into the sea. This poem seems to take place a few years after the sinking, looking back at how it all happened. The first six lines of the poem state that the great ship is deep underwater or as Hardy puts it, "In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity." He then goes on the describe the ship as it lies underwater; "Over the mirrors meant To glass the opulent The sea worm crawls- grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent"(lin

es 7-9). These last three lines described a sea creature crawling through the ship as if it were a part of the ocean floor itself.

s were created, God now made it be that the two masses would collide. "No mortal eye could see The intimate welding of their later history. Or sign that they were bent By paths coincident On being anon twin halves of one august event, Till the Spinner of the Years Said "Now!" And each one hears, And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres"(lines 26-33). These lines are describing how God set the events into motion that would force these two creations to collide. God had then proven who help the supreme power, and diminished all of the human vanity that existed after the building of the Titanic. That is why the poem starts out with the lines, "In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she."

Taking a quick glance at the layout of the poem, the first thing I noticed was that the poem was divided into eleven numbered stanzas. I think this is because each stanza may be viewed as a separate poem in itself. By reading and understanding one stanza at a time it is easier to grasp the meaning of the entire poem. Also by analyzing each stanza reveals that the first five stanzas describe the Titanic as it rests at the bottom of the sea and the last six stanzas refer to the ship and icebergs eventual convergence at the point that is "far and dissociate"(line 21). A closer look reveals that stanzas six and seven, although separated, are meant to be as one. It is ironic that these two stanzas a

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Approximate Word count = 1078
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)