The poem “Titanic” by David R. Slavitt it is about the time when the boat “Titanic” hit the iceberg and he is talking about the people in there. Slavitt is a writer, poet, and translator, the author of more than 100 books. Slavitt was born in White Plain, New York in March 23, 1935. Slavitt’s mother was murdered in 1978 by a teenaged burglar. Slavitt’s poetry has changes in to many emotional. It has become darker. The theme of this poem is people should die together and not alone. Slavitt’s dark tone in this poem shows that people should die together and not alone. For example, in stanza two it state “To go down…we all go down, mostly alone. But with crowds of people, friends servants, well fed, with music, with lights!” The first line of
