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        <title><![CDATA[What in the poem might lead us to conclude that the poem has an...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What in the poem might lead us to conclude that the poem has an exceptionally grim way of understanding the fate of human beings?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The primary cause of the ship's damage is an iceberg, which the poet...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The primary cause of the ship's damage is an iceberg, which the poet describes as

A Shape of Ice, for the time fat and dissociate

However, in the poet's mind, the convergence of the ice and the ship was not an accident:

The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything
        Prepared a sinister mate      For her -- so gaily great -- A Shape of Ice, for the time fat and dissociate.

"The Immanent Will" (God or some other higher...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[According to the poem "Convergence of the Twain," what caused the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[According to the poem "Convergence of the Twain," what caused the Titanic to sink?]]></description>
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