Titanic In english class, we were given the poem “Titanic”. The poem was written by David R. Slavitt. Slavitt had a tough life as a kid. His mother was murdered by a teenaged robber. His experience with his deceased mother probably made him write about dark stories and poems. The poem is about how people would want to go on the Titanic and go through the same death that the people on the Titanic went through. By dying with a lot of people rather than dying alone, which is what most people do. I believe that the theme of the poem by David R. Slavitt is “It’s better to die together than to die alone.” By paraphrases the poem, it helped by giving further understanding to learn about the universal truth about the poem Titanic. For example, “To
