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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]We haven't done this in a while, so I thought I'd post one. Someone mentioned a line from this poem (which I hadn't read) a week or so ago, and it jabbed me until I'd looked it up and read the whole thing.
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]About David Slavitt
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A thought for further discussion -- Slavitt is known and respected as a satirist. To what extent does that information change your reading of the poem?
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif][/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Titanic[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Who does not love the Titanic?[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]If they sold passage tomorrow for that same crossing,[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]who would not buy?[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]To go down...We all go down, mostly[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]alone. But with crowds of people, friends, servants,[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]well fed, with music, with lights!Ah![/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]And the world, shocked, mourns, as it ought to do[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]and almost never does. There will be the books and movies[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]to remind our grandchildren who we were[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]and how we died, and give them a good cry.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Not so bad, after all. The cold[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]water is anesthetic and very quick.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]The cries on all sides must be a comfort.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]We all go: only a few, first class.
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]About David Slavitt
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A thought for further discussion -- Slavitt is known and respected as a satirist. To what extent does that information change your reading of the poem?
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