Two poems that are completely opposite of each other, ironically both talk about two particular issues. One of them is obviously the Titanic. The other one is Fate. "Convergence of the Twain" written by Thomas Hardy in 1912, and "titanic", written be Slavitt, in 1983, both deal with that issue, in one way or the other. "The Convergence of Twain" states in the fourth stanza, "The imminent will that stirs and urges everything" and "Titanic" states more simply in the 2 stanzas, "To go down...We all go down. In these newt two paragraphs I will try to explain how these poems affected me and how different they actually are.
             "The Convergence of Twain" is a poem that you have to read closely because of its sophisticated vocabulary and deep content. If you were just reading the poem as if you were going to read "Titanic" you wouldn't get the whole depth of the poem. For example, stanza 3 says, "To glass opulent, the sea-worm crawls." This is saying, instead of a mirror reflecting the rich and wealthy, it is reflecting the unsightly underwater life. Another thing about this poem is, the mood is really dark, lonely, and depressing. Such words as "solitude, lightless, black and blind" prove this. At a time when the whole world grieved over lost family, friends, and human beings alike, this poem could barely start to describe what they were feeling.
             "Titanic", however, is of a more simple structure. You could read it once through and get it. But the thing is, I noticed, as you read it more times, you start to realize different things about it and you start thinking to yourself. The first time I went through it, I thought the author was demented, but the second time I read it, I realized, that he had a point. In my opinion, a lot of people actually would buy tickets to go on a voyage on the legendary shi
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