Most recent public comments by Miss Jess Law https://nowcomment.com/users/128091 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909742 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909742 The poem is about the Titanic, the enormous ship that infamously sunk after smashing into an iceberg in 1912. The speaker contrasts the human-made majesty of the ship with the alternatively “indifferent” and destructive natural environment that now surrounds it beneath the sea. The ship was supposed to represent human beings' ingenuity and ability to master the natural world. Now, however, the poem argues that the wreck has come to represent the opposite: it is a testament to the fragility of human creation in the face of nature’s might, and a reminder of the perils of hubris. Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:24:13 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909740 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909740 People only realized what would happen when the supernatural power, who determines how long each human life will last, decreed that the ship and the iceberg would meet at this moment. Both the ship and the iceberg obeyed the decree, coming together in a collision that was both the inevitable outcome of the earlier chain of events and the most fitting and perfect conclusion to the ship's career. The collision physically shook the ship and the iceberg, the two halves that made up the whole event, and emotionally shook the two halves of the planet, shocking the entire world. Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:23:29 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909739 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909739 Likewise, no human observer could find any clue that the paths of the iceberg and the path of the ship would ultimately cross, making them two equal participants in a single awe-inspiring occurrence. Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:23:08 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909738 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909738 The ship and the iceberg would have seemed completely unrelated to anyone watching; no human observer could have anticipated how their futures would ultimately come to be closely intertwined. Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:22:42 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909736 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909736 As the builders were making their impressive ship greater in size, capability, and beauty, the iceberg, also, far away, was growing silently larger. Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:22:17 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909735 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909735 This supernatural power began creating an object that would match the ship in size and grandeur: an enormous iceberg. These two closely matched objects would meet at a time far in the future, when no one expected them to meet. Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:21:52 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909734 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909734 The answer is that, while people were building a ship that was meant to effortlessly pierce the sea's waves as it sailed, something else was also taking action: a supernatural power, like God or Fate, that sets in motion and directs everything that happens. Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:21:29 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909733 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909733 Nearby, drab fish with dull eyes look at the wreck and the fine materials that once covered its exterior surfaces, as if they are asking themselves, "What is this self-indulgent luxury doing down at the bottom of the ocean?" Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:20:57 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909730 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909730 Also in the wreck lie jewels that once belonged to passengers or decorated the ship. These jewels were meant to delight wealthy people who concerned themselves primarily with luxurious material goods. Now, they reflect no light, and instead lie colorless, without any sparkle, beneath the dark ocean. Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:20:15 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909729 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909729 In the wreck are mirrors where glamorous, wealthy passengers were meant to see their reflections. Now, however, disgusting, slimy sea-worms crawl silently over those mirrors, completely undisturbed by the wreckage and the carnage. Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:19:53 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909727 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909727 Through the steel-plated boiler rooms, where the fires once burned that powered the ship, chilly currents of water now flow, almost turning the wreck into an instrument that is "played" by the moving water. Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:18:59 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909726 https://nowcomment.com/documents/328556?scroll_to=2909726 The speaker begins by imagining where the Titanic is now. Isolated deep beneath the ocean, far away from the rich, self-indulgent passengers who sailed on her and the ambitious, overconfident engineers who built her, the ship now lies motionless. Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:18:22 -0400