Summary Of Convergence Of The Twain

How Thomas Hardy Presents the Tragedy of the Sinking of the Titanic in the Poem The Convergence of the Twain

Complete intelligence of the mystery of nature is an impossible task. Ron Rash’s short story, “Something Rich and Strange”, displays that human nature does not allow individuals to comprehend the mystery of nature while living. Authors use literary elements to add depth to their writing and help support the meaning. In “Something Rich and Strange” Rash uses symbolism and plot to show the reader what understanding characters such as the drowned girl, the sheriff, and the diver have obtained about the mystery of nature.

Adrienne Rich uses many poetic resources in her poem "Diving into the Wreck." In this poem a diver goes on a trip to investigate a shipwreck in the socially accepted schema. Rich shifts the role of the hero and the strategy for success in her second schema. In the second schema the hero goes on a journey where she discovers her true identity, both female and male.

In Mark Twain’s the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he criticizes society’s aspect of materialism to evince that human nature is dependent on materialistic items, such as money. Twains critique of materialism shows the ignorance of society and how society’s greed can be perceived as cruel and inhumane. In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, an example of where Twain critiques

In many of the works read in this quarter, there was a deeper meaning to the story that the author would convey to the reader through various morally based or meaningful points and sections. This is most evident in the works of Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, and Tim O’Brien. In all of their works, these writers each leave the reader with an important value and a little more understanding on the complexity of human nature and of life itself. Ranging in levels of subtlety and truth, the message sent is familiar and revealing. One might want to ponder these truths alone, as Ernest Hemingway’s main character does in his story, The Old man and the Sea.

The final line of the first stanza emphasizes the power of the ocean and that it does not discriminate when choosing its victims since it willingly takes "the young, the bright, the fair" (8). The poem then transitions like the crest of a wave colliding with a sandy beach as it begins to talk specifically of those who find solace beneath the wrathful waves. The poem's structure also echoes the ebb and flow of the ocean as one wave flawlessly makes way for another. The second stanza begins by describing the slumber of the "wearied seamen" and by stating that they are resting "calmly" the speaker conjures an atmosphere of finality and peace (9). The poem also refers to the sea as belonging to the seamen through the use of the word "own" and in doing so he emphasizes that because the men spent their lives on the sea it became their home

The Titanic was a beautiful disaster that killed many innocent lives. It consisted of various flaws before it set sail and could have saved many lives if the flaws would have been fixed, but on its first voyage, it crashed into an iceberg. The “Unsinkable Ship” was doomed from having leaking watertight bulkheads, coal fires, and not enough lifeboats. People thought that the flaws would be insignificant compared to the vastness and beauty of the ship. They saw it as something glorious that could not be conquered because of its magnificence, but it no longer had worth once it was destroyed. Thomas Hardy’s “The Convergence of the Twain” uses romanticized imagery and suggests that the crash happened because of fate, but

The style of syntax she uses when constructing the found poem supports the efficacy to getting her message through to the reader. The structure of her poem leads the reader towards her goal of understanding the process of expanding their mind. The main body of the poem, excluding the first and last stanza, can be dissected into three consecutive distinct parts: commands, observations, and questions the author provides. The poem first introduces observations and follows with the metaphysical question: “And why have not / The currents of the sea worn away its bottom?” (Dillard 7). This first stanza serves as a signpost to how Dillard structured the rest of the poem, and it gives the reader a vignette of what will come after. After that stanza, Dillard provides four commands concerning interacting the sky and the sea. This begins the path she sets out for the reader. After presenting the commands, Dillard moves on to provide descriptions about the skies and seas, including observations such as the “Aurora Borealis” and “the height and velocity of waves.” She finally concludes the path she set for the reader with yet another metaphysical question: “If the water which now lies on the floor / Of the deep sea has to lie there forever, / Why was it made fluid instead of solid?” The final stanza of the poem serves as a reminder of the path the

To begin, let me contextualize and summarize the last these stanzas: the Mariner and his mates, after killing the albatross, are suffering of dehydration. Then, a ship is seen sailing towards the men. However, aboard the ship sails Death and Life-After-Death; they play dice to see who will deal the fate of each man among the Mariner and his mates. Life-After-Death wins one fate: the Mariner’s.

On the night of April 14, 1912, mans “unsinkable” ship known as the Titanic, slowly submerged into the frozen waters of the Atlantic Ocean, meeting its destiny. In the poem, “The Convergence of the Twain” by Thomas Hardy, Hardy approaches the story in an unusual way. He doesn’t focus on the tragic lives lost, but more on the convergence of the Titanic and the Iceberg and how it was bound to happen. Hardy also emphasizes the never ending battle of man and nature through unsympathetic tones, dark imagery and symbolism, thus creating a fatalistic piece of poetry.

The speaker shows what the ship looked like before and after the iceberg in order to show the ship’s depressing demise. The third stanza reads, “Over the mirrors meant/ To glass the opulent/ The sea-worm crawls-grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent.” The titanic was mainly built for wealthy passengers, so that knowledge leads to the image of an ornate mirror being looked at by well-clothed people; however, that image is then shattered as we see

Read Hardy’s “Convergence of the Twain” carefully, then taking the poem’s title into consideration, analyze how the poetic devices convey the speaker's attitude toward the sinking of the ship. Thomas Hardy’s “Convergence of the Twain” is a cautionary poem mirroring Greek tragedy in which the human world is myopic and always seeking to live “in excess.” Through a cosmic interpretation of the sinking of the Titanic, Hardy fatalistically portrays the constant struggle between divine forces and human fragility. Partial to a theological interpretation of history, Hardy removes the human aspect of the catastrophic crash and instead personifies the relationship between the ship and the iceberg.

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,/

And lastly in stanza seven, Thomas Hardy gives human qualities to the iceberg by saying that it should be “prepared a sinister mate…” as in the iceberg is intentionally there for the purpose to wait for the ship to converge into

“Maktub” is a recurring motif in the The Alchemist which means “it is written.” This term originates from Arabic and it means that Allah has written your destiny and whatever occurs is meant to happen. “Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from his world. Everything depended on one word: ‘Maktub.’ ” (Coelho 112). Your fate and or destiny has been set by someone in greater power. Whatever occurs, is meant to be and happened for a reason. Whether it’s from God, fate or destiny, history or an individual’s genes, determinism plays an enormous role in the Victorian Era. The Victorian Era was a time in Britain where violence and war was occurring within only 60 years. Determinism is expressed in many poems in the Victorian Era