Blog Post Journal -Diving into the Wreck- Caitlynn Hancock

   This week we read about two poems that had a little bit of the same idea. One was about the wreck  of a ship that happened a while ago, and one was about the experience of taking the ferry to Brooklyn. Diving into a Wreck was the poem that I made the most connections with because in the past I had watched Titanic. That is where my mind instantly went as I read the poem. In titanic it's a love story, but in the beginning it shows them going in the depths of the ocean discovering this wreck from almost 100 years ago. One difference was that in the movie they used a big camera instead of a person going down into the ocean discovering this.
   So, as I was reading this, I thought about how in the poem when it says "...the drowned face always staring toward the sun the evidence of damage worn by salt and sway into this threadbare beauty the ribs of the disaster curving their assertion among the tentative haunters." This reminded of me in the Titanic, they go down in the deep dark ocean and everything has fallen apart, is dirty, and worn. And when it talks about the drowned face starting toward the sun I think of how in the titanic the faces were looking up as they died in the freezing, ice cold ocean. Which also connects with the lines in the poem, "...whose drowned face sleeps with open eyes whose breasts still bear the stress whose silver, copper, vermeil cargo lies obscurely inside barrels..."
   It is interesting because this poem says that it is there for the wreck and not the story. even though there is a story. Where in Titanic they are interested in the treasure that they can find, but end up finding out about the story because they found a drawing instead of treasure.