greykit.poetry — #fate
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1912
[thomas-hardy]
The Convergence of the Twain
Hardy's cold meditation on the Titanic and the iceberg, grown in shadowy distance as twin halves of one august event, until the Spinner of the Years said "Now!" and jarred two hemispheres.
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1898
[thomas-hardy]
Hap
A vengeful god would at least be an answer; what the poem finds instead is Crass Casualty and dicing Time, purblind Doomsters who had as readily strown blisses about the pilgrimage as pain.
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1681
[andrew-marvell]
The Definition of Love
A love begotten by Despair upon Impossibility, kept apart by jealous Fate like the two poles of the world — parallel lines, infinite, that can never meet: the conjunction of the mind, and opposition of the stars.