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The Sinking of the Titanic (poem)

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The poem is primarily about the failure of Western civilization as an enterprise, a point which Enzensberger makes explicitly in the passage about
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Similarities and parallels have been frequently drawn between this poem and
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pointing more and more hoses at the advancing fiery lava
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not forever perhaps, but for the time being at least,
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Suhrkamp Verlag
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351802762X
German
allegorical
German
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Suhrkamp Verlag
Icelanders
T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land
opera by Wilhelm Dieter Siebert
"Schriftsteller Hans Magnus Enzensberger gestorben"
"Der Untergang der Titanic Hans Magnus Enzensberger - Search"
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1978 poems
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Works originally published in German magazines
Works about RMS Titanic
Poetry by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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20th-century poem stubs

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