Thomas Hardy can be placed in two categories of Victorian novelists and Modern poet. His famous poetry involves rural landscape and his personal history including his roots. Reading about Hardy's ideas on the Titanic in The Convergence of the Twain is interesting because I enjoy reading about the ship wreck. At first with the title I thought he was speaking of the author Mark Twain, yet reading more in the poem the "convergence of the twain" seems to reflect the convergence of the Titanic hitting the iceberg. .He describes everything being at the bottom like "jewels" that just "lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind"(1076). make it seem like all the money put into it is now at the bottom and no one can see the beauty of it and now a waste. Even though the Titanic had a strong "stature, grace, and hue", the iceberg would soon take the same stance and collide with the Titanic "by paths coincident" (1077).
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Linh,
Glad to see you interest in the Titanic, and in Hardy's poem commemorating it. You seem to be off to a good start here, with some apt quotations and commentaries. You do not really go in sufficient depth, though.
I like how you broke down certain parts of the poem and really explained how you explained it in reference to the ship (Titanic) itself.
I enjoyed this poem, since you know it's one of my favorite movies (although the movie has ntohgin to do with the poem). The titanic was a grand ship as hardy pointed out, but unfortunately it's sunk at the bottom of the ocean. :)
I agree with the statement that no matter what the Titanic was made of, the iceberg would match its strength. I also loved reading about the Titanic. Did not like the movie.
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