Thomas Hardy

For some reason, these last 5 didn’t get posted a few days ago when I did them. Wow, I feel kind of retarded, but here they are.

I really enjoyed Thomas Hardy’s poem, “The Convergence of the Twain”. He was describing the incredible event of the sinking of the Titanic (which is actually one of my favorite movies). When the Titanic was first built, it was considered a ship that couldn’t sink, and also only the mostly those who were wealthy use to fill the boat. This is described in the first stanza. In lines 7 and 8, it’s describing how magnificent things use to fill the boat and be reflected by the mirrors, but now all that is left are “sea-worms-grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent.”

He mentions an “Immanent Will” which I believe is the supernatural thing that causes the Titanic to meet with the Iceberg. The speaker makes it seem it was inevitable for the iceberg and the titanic not to hit. The poem makes it seemed like it was planned. It was as if they were destined to for them to collide because of this line, “On being anon twin halves of one august event.” It seemed as though Thomas Hardy thought the Titanic had it coming to it, because it was all the greed and luxury that brought this liner down to its fate into the see. The people in the boat wanted to get to the United States soon enough to get in the paper the next morning, and with that, now all it is now is an ornament on the bottom of the see.