The Convergence Of The Twain Analysis

(Lines on the loss of the "Titanic")
        
          I
     In a solitude of the sea
     Deep from human vanity,
And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.
          
          II

     Steel chambers, late the pyres
     Of her salamandrine fires,
Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres.
  
          III

     Over the mirrors meant
     To glass the opulent
The sea-worm crawls--grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent.

          IV

     Jewels in joy designed
     To ravish the sensuous mind
Lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind.
  
          V

     Dim moon-eyed fishes near
     Gaze at the gilded gear
And query: "What does this vaingloriousness down here?". . .
          
          VI

     Well: while was fashioning
     This creature of cleaving wing,
The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything

          VII

     Prepared a sinister mate
     For her--so gaily great--
A Shape of Ice, for the time fat and dissociate.

          VIII

     And as the smart ship grew
     In stature, grace, and hue
In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.

          IX

     Alien they seemed to be:
     No mortal eye could see
The intimate welding of their later history.
    
          X

     Or sign that they were bent
     By paths coincident
On being anon twin halves of one August event,
    
          XI

     Till the Spinner of the Years
     Said "Now!" And each one hears,
And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.

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"over the mirrors meant
to glass opulent
the sea-worm-crawls - grotesque , slimed, dumb , indifferent"
nature cares nothing for humans vanity objects , we will all die one day but nature will still be there. No matter how "opulent" or "vainglourious" when we are gone it won't matter

| Posted on 2009-11-05 | by a guest

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Sigh. I think a lot of people are misinterpretating the tone of this poem. Thomas Hardy is criticizing our society's vanity and gaudiness. He thinks the Titanic had it coming. That's what we get for creating something so lavish and "glorious"

| Posted on 2009-10-21 | by a guest

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The speaker in Hardys's poem sees the catastrophic even of the titanic sinking as something majestic and even romantic. I think its very akward since most people saw it as an unexpected tragedy. Yet he makes it seem as it was almost meant to happen with words like "mate", "twin halves", and "paths coincident".

| Posted on 2009-09-30 | by a guest

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The speaker in Hardys's poem sees the catastrophic even of the titanic sinking as something majestic and even romantic. I think its very akward since most people saw it as an unexpected tragedy. Yet he makes it seem as it was almost meant to happen with words like "mate", "twin halves", and "paths coincident"

| Posted on 2009-09-30 | by a guest

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i agree the 2009 02 17 person.
from a rolling meadows student

| Posted on 2009-02-18 | by a guest

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This poem is about the loss of the Titanic. But it's more so of about sex. It's all sex, sex, sex, and more sex.

| Posted on 2009-02-17 | by a guest

.: Iceberg :.

And as the smart ship grew
In stature, grace, and hue
In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.
This means that while the ship was being built by men, God was making the Iceberg that the ship crashed in to.

| Posted on 2008-04-28 | by a guest

.: Iceberg :.

And as the smart ship grew
In stature, grace, and hue
In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.
This means that while the ship was being built by men, God was making the Iceberg that the ship crashed in to.

| Posted on 2008-04-28 | by a guest