THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN” By Thomas Hardy

the Essay should be critically analytical. It should have introduction, thesis and the paragraphs should support the thesis. The Essay should have a work cited page with atleast 3 secondary sources. The Essay needs to have a title and a topic sentence.

The Essay on poetry should have those questions while writing.

1. Who is the speaker? It is possible to determine the speaker’s age, sex, sensibilities, level of awareness, and values.
2. Is the speaker addressing anyone in particular?
3. How do you respond to the speaker? Favorably? Negatively? What is the situation? Are there any special circumstances that inform what the speaker says?
4. Is there a specific setting of time and Place?
5. What does the title emphasize?
6. Is the theme presented directly of indirectly?
7. Do any allusions enrich the poems meaning?
8. How does the diction reveal meaning? Are any words repeated? Do any carry evocative connotative meanings?
9. Are figures of speech used? How does the figurative language contribute to the Poems vividness and meaning?
10. Does it have any symbolic meaning?
11. Is irony used? Are there any examples of situational irony, verbal irony, or dramatic irony? Is understatement or paradox used?
12. What is the tone of the Poem? Is the tone consistent?
13. Does the Poem use onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, or alliteration? How do these sounds affect you?
14. What sounds are repeated? If there are rhymes, what is their effect?
15. Do the lines have a regular meter?
16. Did you enjoy the Poem? What, specifically, pleased or displeased you about what was expressed and how it was expressed?
17. How might historical information about the poem provide a useful context for interpretation?
18. To what extent do your own experiences, values, beliefs, and assumptions inform your interpretation?
19. How might historical information about the author help to determine the poems central concerns?

Vivek Patel

POEM

THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN”  By Thomas Hardy

(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 far 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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The Essay should be critically analytical. It should have introduction, thesis and the paragraphs should support the thesis. The Essay should have a work cited page with atleast 3 secondary sources. The Essay needs to have a title and a topic sentence.

The Essay on poetry should have those questions while writing.

1.     Who is the speaker? It is possible to determine the speaker’s age, sex, sensibilities, level of awareness, and values.
2.    Is the speaker addressing anyone in particular?
3.    How do you respond to the speaker? Favorably? Negatively? What is the situation? Are there any special circumstances that inform what the         speaker says?
4.    Is there a specific setting of time and Place?
5.    What does the title emphasize?
6.    Is the theme presented directly of indirectly?
7.    Do any allusions enrich the poem’s meaning?
8.    How does the diction reveal meaning? Are any words repeated? Do any carry evocative connotative meanings?
9.    Are figures of speech used? How does the figurative language contribute to the Poem’s vividness and meaning?
10.    Does it have any symbolic meaning?
11.    Is irony used? Are there any examples of situational irony, verbal irony, or dramatic irony? Is understatement or paradox used?
12.    What is the tone of the Poem? Is the tone consistent?
13.    Does the Poem use onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, or alliteration? How do these sounds affect you?
14.    What sounds are repeated? If there are rhymes, what is their effect?
15.    Do the lines have a regular meter?
16.    Did you enjoy the Poem? What, specifically, pleased or displeased you about what was expressed and how it was expressed?
17.    How might historical information about the poem provide a useful context for interpretation?
18.    To  what extent do your own experiences, values, beliefs, and assumptions inform your interpretation?
19.    How might historical information about the author help to determine the poem’s central concerns?