Essay Subjects: Poetry, Shows and Events. Keywords: Hardy’s poems, impersonality of Hardy, Convergence of the Twain, present tense, heavy use of caesurae, Hardy’s confessional work, current situation of The Titanic
The form and structure of “The Convergence of the Twain” are very much unlike many of Hardy’s poems, a possible response to the scale of his commitment to writing publically or perhaps simply an exploration of form to try and convey his own views, slightly antithetical in themselves, on the disaster. The poem is divided into eleven heroic triplets, self-containing the stanzas with the rhyme scheme, and leaving the poem in an isometric form- possibly highlighting the impersonality of Hardy’s view on the events.