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1935, The Titanic, E. J. Pratt

Lot Number:4314
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1935, The Titanic, E. J. Pratt

đź“š Bibliographic Details

  • Title: The Titanic 

  • Author: E. J. Pratt 

  • Publisher: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Toronto 

  • Year: 1935 

  • Format: A long narrative poem (approx. 42 pages) telling the story of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. 

đź“ť What the Poem Is About

  • The poem dramatizes the building, voyage, and sinking of the Titanic, using epic-poetry techniques and imagery. 

  • It begins with the ship’s launch (Harland & Wolff works, Belfast) and moves through the voyage, collision with iceberg, the breaking apart, and sinking. 

  • Pratt uses detailed technical and nautical language: references to watch systems, pressures, compass, ship’s mechanics, the iceberg’s origin and nature. 

  • He also treats the disaster as both human tragedy and metaphorical symbol — the hubris of technology and the sea’s power.

🎯 Themes & Significance

  • Technology and hubris: The Titanic is shown as the marvel of its era, yet vulnerable to nature and human error.

  • Nature vs human enterprise: The iceberg, the ocean, the ship all interact in tragic tension.

  • Human drama: While the poem is epic in style, it doesn’t lose sight of human beings – crew, passengers, the decisions made in the crisis.

  • Canadian literary importance: This poem is one of Pratt’s major narrative poems and a key work in Canadian poetry dealing with maritime themes. 

đź“Ś Why It's Useful for Research

  • If you’re studying the Titanic disaster, Pratt’s poem offers a cultural literary interpretation rather than just historical facts — useful for understanding how the disaster was mythologized in literature.

  • It’s useful for studies of marine poetry, Canadian narrative verse, and how poets engage with technology and tragedy.

  • For literary analysis: the structure, rhythm, imagery, and rhetorical devices (e.g., epic diction, anthropomorphizing the ship/iceberg) are rich material.

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