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Comment 5 of 5, added on January 15th, 2007 at 1:49 PM.
Stanza VII should read "far and dissociate," NOT "fat and dissociate."
One of the comments refers to "Imminent Will," which is a mispelling of "Immanent Will," a mispelling that alters the meaning of the line. "Immanent Will" is Hardy's reference to a veangful divinity that frustrates human pretensions, the opposite of the Christian God. Such a negative concept of divinity was widespread at the time.
roger schmeeckle from United States
Comment 4 of 5, added on May 16th, 2006 at 12:47 PM.
Hardy's own loss of faith in God distances the tradgedy from an act of vengency by God, yet his mention of 'The Imminant will' show a belief in a fate which coincides with the notion that as if in order to restor balance the iceburg grew synonomosly. Likewise the use of the imagery that the two forms 'were bent by paths coincident'supports theinterpretatiom that as a a consquence of humanity's unrestriced and considered progress a force of nature is urged to counter this by fate.
maria from United Kingdom
Comment 3 of 5, added on March 22nd, 2006 at 6:54 AM.
The coming together of the ship and the iceburg, 'welding' only one letter from wedding.
The innocence is lost as the two collide.
Jenny from United Kingdom
Comment 2 of 5, added on July 15th, 2005 at 6:36 PM.
He talks of predestined occurrance as if God had set this in motion to teach mankind a lesson.He compares this tradegy to marriage by saying that god was preparing a sinister mate for the titantic in the form of an Iceberg
Dave Persaud from United States
Comment 1 of 5, added on April 26th, 2005 at 7:38 AM.
hardy is explaining how in the face of nature vanity is gone and that vanity is worthless at the bottom of the sea , this poem also seems to explain that the sinking of the titanic was fate
emma from United Kingdom
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Stanza VII should read "far and dissociate," NOT "fat and dissociate."
One of the comments refers to "Imminent Will," which is a mispelling of "Immanent Will," a mispelling that alters the meaning of the line. "Immanent Will" is Hardy's reference to a veangful divinity that frustrates human pretensions, the opposite of the Christian God. Such a negative concept of divinity was widespread at the time.
roger schmeeckle from United States