therefore naming it the “Unsinkable ship” after it has set sail. Unfortunately, the unsinkable ship collided with an iceberg on April 14, 1912, claiming the lives of 1,500 passengers. As a result, the Titanic broke into two and sunk, leaving behind its legacy. Thomas Hardy provides a poem that acknowledges the sinking of the Titanic. Unlike the many similar reactions of grief and sorrow that the people had, Hardy approaches the event differently. In the poem, "The Convergence of the Twain," Thomas
Tragedy of the Sinking of the Titanic in the Poem The Convergence of the Twain On the fateful day of April 1912, the great ship known as the Titanic collided into an enormous Iceberg. Down went the colossal ship and so did the rich, famous and all their valuable goods. The reports of people drowning were in all of the newspapers but not in one of them was there anything about what happened to the ship under the sea. In Hardy's poem, there is nothing about what happened to passengers
story or poem. Many authors use figurative language to create and develop the mood, or how the author feels during the story. Walt Whitman, author of “O Captain! My Captain!”, uses figurative language, such as metaphor and imagery, to create a solemn mood. A metaphor is a type of figurative language that compares two things without using the words like or as. This device helps create the mood because it gives the reader a comparison to what the author is talking about, which makes the poem more relatable
college professors, and multiple sources discussing the poem. The critics discussed the following work by the use of supernaturalism and religious symbolism. College instructor, Melba Cuddy-Keane, states that the poem is viewed as a “dream voyage to another realm” (par. 2). According to critic Michael Burke, the poem reveals a “romantic myth of a circular transcending journey, organized innocence, and salvation” (par. 5). Throughout the poem, Coleridge will deliberate the trials and tribulations
Few poems are more well known by Americans other than “O Captain! My Captain!,” especially after the dramatic scene in A Dead Poets Society in which students stand on their desk and profess “O Captain! My Captain!” to protest the decision the headmaster makes to fire their professor. Its basic metaphors can be easily understood by the masses, and it clearly conveys ideas shared by many across the country at the end of the Civil War. However, at a closer inspection, the poem reveals a deeper connection
Letter to God At first glance, it appears as though O’Hara’s poem “To the Harbormaster” is about a man sailing a turbulent sea, but there is far more to examine past the surface level of the poem. O’Hara chooses to use the word “vessel” (14) in the poem. The Oxford English dictionary defines the word “vessel” in multiple ways. One is “any structure designed to float upon and traverse the water for the carriage of persons or goods; a craft or ship of any kind.” It is also defined as “Said of the body, esp
My Captain!” in a poem by Walt Whitman in 1865 shortly after the death of the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. This poem shows how a leader, or captain, can bring people through very difficult times. The example the poem itself uses is the captain of the ship leading his crew through perilous weather and conditions on the sea, but still getting them through it. However, he may have got his crew through the journey, but he himself is overcome by the burden. The poem is written in a way
the famous poem, “O Captain! My Captain!” Written by, Walt Whitman in the year 1865. The poem, refers to a terrible event in American history; the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Instead of the country celebrating and rejoicing over the ending of the Civil War and being happy over the country being kept whole, everyone was mourning in the loss of their leader. Aboard a ship, the poem is about a fellow sailor grieving from the loss of his captain. The sailor in the poem is singing
re-imagines this icon in his poem The Convergence of the Twain. Instead of an explicit critique of the ship’s ostentatious vanity, Hardy sees The Titanic’s sinking as the judgment for its “vaingloriousness” and a product of the ship’s conception, development, and wedding to fate. The poem’s organization emphasizes a contrast between different states of the ship’s existence. In fact, the author answers how the ship came to being sunk as the poem progresses. The ship, which came “Deep from human
and melancholy in many poems for many years. The two poems, "The convergence of the Twain' by Thomas Hardy and 'Harp song of the Dane women' by Rudyard Kipling both explore portrayal of loss but each in a very different ways. Although they do both seem similar in content and style, the way that the poem reflects on each of he poet's emotions are very different. ====================================================================== The poem 'The convergence of the Twain'