Assignment: FINAL EXAMINATION C

HUM16-T Q1 2014-2015
2014-09-10T05:09:40Z

Due: Sep 11, 2014 by 9:59am

THE ONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN

by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

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In the Solitude of the sea

Deep from the human vanity

And the pride of life that planned her, stilly couches she

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Steel chambers, late the pyres

(5) Of her salamandrine fires,

Cold current third, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres

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Over the mirrors meant

To glass the opulent

The sea worm crawls - grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent

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(10) Jewels in joy designed

To ravish the sensuous mind

Life lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind.

5

Dim moon-eyed fishes near

Gaze at the gilded gear

(15) And query: "What does this vaingloriuosness down here?"

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Well: while was fashioning

This creature of cleaving wing,

The immanent Will that stills and urges everything

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Prepared a sinister mate

(20) For her - so gaily great -

A Shape of Ice, for the time far and dissociate.

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And as the smart ship grew

in stature, grace, and hue,

In shadowy silent distance grew the iceberg too.

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(25) Alien they seemed to be:

No mortal eye could see

The intimate welding of their later history.

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Or sign that they were bent

By paths coincident

On being anon twin halves of one august event.

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Till the Spinner of the Years

Said "Now!" And each one hears,

And consummation comes and jars two hemispheres

THE ONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN

by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

1

In the Solitude of the sea

Deep from the human vanity

And the pride of life that planned her, stilly couches she

2

Steel chambers, late the pyres

(5) Of her salamandrine fires,

Cold current third, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres

3

Over the mirrors meant

To glass the opulent

The sea worm crawls - grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent

4

(10) Jewels in joy designed

To ravish the sensuous mind

Life lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind.

5

Dim moon-eyed fishes near

Gaze at the gilded gear

(15) And query: "What does this vaingloriuosness down here?"

6

Well: while was fashioning

This creature of cleaving wing,

The immanent Will that stills and urges everything

7

Prepared a sinister mate

(20) For her - so gaily great -

A Shape of Ice, for the time far and dissociate.

8

And as the smart ship grew

in stature, grace, and hue,

In shadowy silent distance grew the iceberg too.

9

(25) Alien they seemed to be:

No mortal eye could see

The intimate welding of their later history.

10

Or sign that they were bent

By paths coincident

On being anon twin halves of one august event.

11

Till the Spinner of the Years

Said "Now!" And each one hears,

And consummation comes and jars two hemispheres