Convergence of the Twain Analysis
The Convergence of the Twain Rewrite
Intimated in Hardy's pindaric ode entitled "The Convergence of the Twain" is an attitude of melancholy. While this poem is sad, it appears that Hardy also employs his work to revisit a common theme in his works and a strong belief in his life: marriage. The poem seems to carry the metaphor of marriage and the metonymy of the Titanic. Then later demonstrating the sundering of this idea. It is no secret that Hardy does not agree with marriage. In another piece of his work, Jude the Obscure, he states "Marriage is marriage", and getting out of it is both extremely difficult and also immoral. In stanza seven Hardy describes the ship as "her" and that a "sinister mate" was being prepared for her. Illustrating both sides of a marriage. Sinister seems the perfect way to describe Hardy's attitude to the work and the idea as a whole. The stanzas appear to represent boats or ships at the start of the poem. As the reader continues to each stanza, he can see that each stanza becomes a little more deshevelled. Until the stanzas become completely disjointed. This represents the ship hitting the iceberg and cracking, and eventually splitting. Throughout the work Hardy alludes to fate. Listing key words such as, " thread", "fashioning", "Immanent Will", and most importantly, "Till the Spinner." "The Spinner" is referring to the third fate: Clotho. This fate spins the thread of life.
"Till the Spinner of the Years
Said "Now!" And each one hers,
And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres"
This quote coming from the last stanza of the poem demonstrates Hardy's lack of optimism for marriage. It also establishes when the Titanic struck the iceberg that it devestated two hemispheres and will stand as a depressing event throughout all history.
Intimated in Hardy's pindaric ode entitled "The Convergence of the Twain" is an attitude of melancholy. While this poem is sad, it appears that Hardy also employs his work to revisit a common theme in his works and a strong belief in his life: marriage. The poem seems to carry the metaphor of marriage and the metonymy of the Titanic. Then later demonstrating the sundering of this idea. It is no secret that Hardy does not agree with marriage. In another piece of his work, Jude the Obscure, he states "Marriage is marriage", and getting out of it is both extremely difficult and also immoral. In stanza seven Hardy describes the ship as "her" and that a "sinister mate" was being prepared for her. Illustrating both sides of a marriage. Sinister seems the perfect way to describe Hardy's attitude to the work and the idea as a whole. The stanzas appear to represent boats or ships at the start of the poem. As the reader continues to each stanza, he can see that each stanza becomes a little more deshevelled. Until the stanzas become completely disjointed. This represents the ship hitting the iceberg and cracking, and eventually splitting. Throughout the work Hardy alludes to fate. Listing key words such as, " thread", "fashioning", "Immanent Will", and most importantly, "Till the Spinner." "The Spinner" is referring to the third fate: Clotho. This fate spins the thread of life.
"Till the Spinner of the Years
Said "Now!" And each one hers,
And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres"
This quote coming from the last stanza of the poem demonstrates Hardy's lack of optimism for marriage. It also establishes when the Titanic struck the iceberg that it devestated two hemispheres and will stand as a depressing event throughout all history.