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Hardy's 'The Convergence of the Twain.' (Thomas Hardy)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19950101
Author:Graves, Roy Neil

The meeting of the Titanic and the iceberg that caused its sinking in Thomas Hardy's 'The Convergence of the Twain' is likened to an ironic nuptial between the female ship and her predetermined evil husband. This conceited presentation is a technique that causes its readers to evaluate the poem's tone, literary precedents and analogs and meaning. It also emphasizes the artists' control of the materials involved in the act of creation.

Incontrovertibly, Thomas Hardy's poem "The Convergence of the Twain: (Lines on the Loss of the Titanic)" likens the encounter between the "unsinkable" ...

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