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The Convergence Of The Twain Tone

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Ayman Zendah
Mr. Sabolcik
AP Lit
03/5/17
PAE 3.2
The Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy is generally assumed to be serious in tone due to it being written in remembrance of those who past away in the Titanic. On the other hand, many believe the poem has an insulting tone against the unsinkable. Hardy talks about the appealing "jewels" in the fourth stanza and how the fish in the sea ask "What does this vaingloriousness down here?" In the fifth stanza. There are three lines that split a common rhyme scheme which is AAA (lines sixteen-eighteen).
The Convergence of the Twain has several tone switches throughout the entire poem, the tone is much from compassion, however it shifts from a sarcastic tone to more of a respected tone. There

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