Analysis Of Titanic By David R Slavitt

“Titanic” by David R. Slavitt The poem “Titanic” by David R. Slavitt is related to one of the most significant yet terrible point in time, of the world shipbuilding. David R. Slavitt, goes into great description in order to help the reader imagine the terrifying situation. The author creates a unique impression of power and money, but shifts gears to a terrifying sensation. The author unfolds that those passengers, who purchased a ticket, perished in the freezing water of The Atlantic Ocean. Nonetheless, the death of those fortunate passengers is not forgotten, for they leave behind their mark in history. David R. Slavitt, uses several literary devices in order to, enhance his purpose of the poem; such as nobody can emerge death and dying
Salvitt is a talented and unique poet, with impressing work such as “Titanic”. The manner that Slavitt composes his poems is impressing, because he shifts the tone of a poem. Henry Taylor concluded that “Salvitt is also a master of tonal variety; within the same poem he can make shifts of tone which most poets would find too risky.” He likes to take risky decisions to see the outcome in the end. Also, Salvitt is an impressing poet for the reason that he does not write novels or poems just for money or fame, but he actually loves and enjoys to write. George Garret comments that “Although he has written and published seventeen novels in the past fourteen years, David Salvitt considers himself first and foremost a poet, a poet who writes novels to earn some time and money to support his habit of writing poetry.” Slavitt wrote the poem “Titanic” in 1983. Slavitt wrote the poem, seventy-one years after disaster of The Titanic. However, Slavitt used that towards his advantage, in order to help the reader, remember and imagine the death of those passengers. Slavitt comments that “And the world, shocked, mourns, as it ought to do and almost never does.” The author describes that the people around the world are in shock, because no one assumed that the Titanic would sink. Salvitt wrote “there will be the books and movies to remind our grandchildren who we were and how we died, and give them a good cry”, he recognizes that the death of those passengers will
The way that Salvitt organized the poem “Titanic” is astonishing in several ways. First of all, since the poem is divided in several sections it falls under the stanzaic classification form. Slavitt composed the poem “Titanic” in free verse, with five stanzas, and with barely any fixed structure. Shin comments that “The poem almost seems like a written form of everyday speech, with a combinations of questions, exclamations, and statement that create a colloquial tone for the poem.” Slavitt constructed the perfect style that suits his poem “Titanic”, in which he more assured in his message. Additionally, Slavitt did not mixed his poem “Titanic” with any type of rhyming. Moreover, David R. Slavitt amplified his patterns of rhythm by using stressed and unstressed syllables throughout the poem. He composed the poem in an Iambic pattern, in order to make it sound like an ordinarily conversation. The meter, rhythm, and organization of the poem “Titanic” helps Slavitt in strengthening his purpose for the