Research Paper On The Convergence Of The Twain By Thomas Hardy

Initially Mai holds a negative perspective in “Mai closed her eyes and tried to recall her father's stories— but they rang shallow against the dense roaring slabs of water she'd just seen.” The hydrographia personifies the natural elements creating a pathetic fallacy, which reflects Mai’s initially pessimistic attitude as her hope is crushed by the harsh reality of her experiences on the boat. However, this provocative experience catalyses a transformed perception, as upon reaching the shore she thinks: “The boat would land - they would all land.” The epistrophe of “land” and high modality of “would” shows her renewed hopeful perspective, which would not have been possible without physically experiencing the harshness of being on the boat. Thus, the ability for discoveries to be far-reaching and transformative is seen through these provocative and confronting external experiences that transform individual perceptions.

Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck” sends one into a deep cultural descent. We look a one ones exploration into the rift in society between sexes, and the journey to rewrite that. The three parts that symbolize this are: the book of myths, the camera and the knife, the diver’s relationship with the wreck and the cargo found below.

(Attention material) Morgan Robertson wrote a book called The Wreck of the Titan. It was about a so called “unsinkable” ship named the Titan that set sail from England to New York. There were many rich and famous passengers on board. On its journey, the Titan hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and sunk. Because of the lack of lifeboats, many people died. If this sounds familiar, get this. The Wreck of the Titan was written 14 years before the Titanic sank.

“Mother is this ship really safe and unsinkable?” said Mary Anne Louise to her mom while she started to walk towards the RMS Titanic “I have the same question as the girl… Is this ship really unsinkable?” said a lady known as Mrs.Sylvia Caldwell. “Of course it is unsinkable God himself could not sink this ship!” exclaimed the crew member as he helped her up the steps.After they entered the ship, she stood in amazement see how this ship was designed.She suddenly saw a girl dressed in a simple, pretty white dress and a large bow on the back of her head.She wanted to say hi but her mom wouldn’t let her because she was a lower class than her

In “The Convergence of the Twain,” by Thomas Hardy, the speaker opens up his attitude towards the sinking of the ship. What the title, “The Convergence of the Twain,” means is when two things come together to merge into one, in this case, the iceberg and the ship. The speaker uses multiple poetic devices to convey his opinion that the sinking of the ship was not a surprise, but rather something that nature has control over man. As tragic as it may sounds, the speaker elucidates the idea that everything has a plan, the sinking of the ship was inevitable. By depicting mankind’s pride and vanity, the speaker uses imagery, connotative diction, and metaphors to demonstrate that the sinking of the ship was not a tragedy.

Mark Twain was a world renowned novelist and a beloved American Writer. He wrote things about what was happening in the world around him and is also a huge part of American Literature. Although Mark Twain is a famous novelist his home life, background/achievements, and greatest accomplishments are what made him who he is today.

Preview Topic: (The Titanic is one of the most famous non-war tragedies in history, as you may have heard of it or seen it but are oblivious to the facts.).

The poem The Convergence of the Twain, by Thomas Hardy, is about the sinking of the Titanic. The title alone describes the ship and the iceberg meeting as one. By choosing this title, the author automatically conveys a seriousness of the poem. The author uses various literary techniques to convey his mockery and careless attitude towards the sinking of the ship.

Often times in poetry, authors use metaphors and imagery to relate thematic elements in their writing to significant components of their personal life or general human nature. Frequently, poets use their writing as a vehicle to subtly narrate their inner struggles or personal conflicts to the audience. In the poem “The Convergence of the Twain,” author Thomas Hardy introduces the harsh relationship between human vanity and the formidable power of nature. Due to Hardy’s upbringing in rural England, he often wrote about his isolated life and the hindrance that work and religion had on his education. According to Wikipedia, Hardy also criticized those involved in English Victorian society and the declining status of rural men and women. The recurring themes of man’s inferiority and the worthlessness of material values in Hardy’s work can be attributed to his belief that religion and human materialism are often at the root of unhappiness and mankind’s inferiority to nature. Similar to Hardy’s frustration during his childhood, author Elizabeth Bishop grew up in the early 1900s with an unstable family while struggling to find a place of belonging in society. Prior to moving in with her grandparents, Bishop’s father passed away before she was one year of age and her mother suffered through serious mental instability until she was admitted to an institution when Bishop turned five years old. In Bishop’s poem “The Fish,” the author utilizes vivid imagery to highlight the positive

Mark Twain is an American author who has shaped the American literature world in a way no other author has. Twain grew up in Hannibal Missouri, he used his childhood memories to write his novels (Pfluger 6). Twain’s writing was based off of events that happened to him throughout his boyhood, using friends and family as models for his characters (Pfluger 6). His writing has influenced young adult fiction and is used as a template to modern young adult novels (Greebblatt). In recent years his novels have been seen as controversial and banned from many school settings because of the controversial content. His most controversial novel and also must successful, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been deemed inappropriate for young readers.

It’s easy to tell that the ocean is a mysterious and isolating place from all of the tragic tales we hear from sailors both real and fictional. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and an anonymous author’s “The Seafarer” are quite similar in that they both revolve around said tragic tales told by sailors. However, there seem to be more commonalities between their themes, tones, and messages rather than their seaward-bound settings. But before we can discuss these similar settings and deeper themes, we have to tackle their origins.

In the convergence of the twain (p) , the idea of the immanent will is clearly presented as hardy's suggests that the titanic converging with the iceberg was not a coincidence, but rather an event planned by an immanent will which is also mentioned as "the spinner of the years ". This let us infer that the ship has been destined for distraction since it was first built. In the six (w) stanza, "the immanent will that stirs and urges everything" shows how hardy believed in a supiroir (sp) force that controlled and predestined everything. He uses this immanent will, to explain the collision of this two "mates", the titanic and the iceberg . In the eight (w) stanza, when the writor (sp) states " as the smart ship grew/ in stature, grace and hue,/

“The Open Boat” is short tale of endurance, suffering, and redemption. The story focuses on four interesting sailors on a journey towards survival. They try their best to overcome the adversities of the water and raging storm. Crane focuses on the constant struggle of man’s immobility to control his own life. “The Open Boat” is a nonfictional fiction some call it. It typically is argued as only fiction, but many lean toward its nonfictional quality. Crane wrote the story based off his real life experience of a shipwreck he tragically endured. The Commodore, the name of the ship, was the victim of the waves and Crane just so happened to be one of its friends. He wrote 2 articles based on this tragedy, but “The Open Boat” became the best

Trivy Lepham Mrs. Allen AP Literature, P.4 4 February 2015 The Ungrateful In the poem, “The Convergence of the Twain” by Thomas Hardy, there are many different kinds of poetic devices that the writer uses to portray the overall meaning of the poem. The writer uses mostly imagery, personification, and diction to describe the destruction of God by stating the fact that the Titanic was once elegant and beautiful until tragedy happened and made the ship turned into, as stated, “grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent…” Thomas Hardy uses a lot of imagery throughout his poem to create an imagination for the reader of how the ship went from elegant and beautiful to a completely demolished object. In the first stanza of the poem, Hardy describes

As stated in the text, the poet interrupts the flow of time by taking a piece of a moment and analyzing it. Many times, the poet is able to create a new meaning from a specific event. In “The Convergence of the Twain,” Thomas Hardy takes the tragedy of the Titanic and constructs a new view of why the Titanic sinks. Hardy uses different arrangements and patterns, such as line length and the structure of the poem, to argue that the sinking of the Titanic was fate.