Titanic David R Slavitt Analysis

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The poem that I read was “Titanic”. The poet of this poem is David R Slavitt, who is a writer, poet, translator, and the author of over 100 books. When I first read the title of the poem, I remembered the incident on April 15, 2016 in which the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with iceberg during its maiden voyage. The poem reveals that due to the popularity of the Titanic, not many people would pass up the chance to passage on the ship.

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