• How does Thomas Hardy present the tragedy of the sinking of the Titanic in the poem The Convergence of the Twain?

     

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Published: 09.09.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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How does Thomas Hardy present the 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 on the huge liner but instead he has described (in his point of view) th…

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