| Title | : | Titanic Poetry, Music & Stories |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.84 (367 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 148498501X |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 158 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-15 |
| Genre | : |
Many great accounts of the fateful night of April 14th and 15th of 1912 have been told about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Over the past one hundred and two years, the stories of the people and the disaster have been explained in art, movies, books, music and verse. This book begins with an original poem I have written to commemorate the ship’s first, last and only voyage and the heroics demonstrated by some of those souls on board, some who survived and others who did not. Other wonderful and historic poems from the years immediately following the disaster are included here along with musical tributes, some of which can be linked to hear historic renditions on ebooks and computers. Some of the poems are famous, while others were penned by unknown poets. Newspapers of the day found that they received unsolicited poems by the hundreds on a daily basis - so many that the editor of the New York Times penned an editorial declaring many to be unworthy. The editorial concluded with a
Editorial : From the Author Jack Phillips, one of the heroes of the Titanic, used every available second of the two hours and forty minutes prior to the sinking of the ship, to send S.O.S. and C.Q.D. messages to other ships at sea, before he dove into the dark and cold water in an attempt to save his own life. Phillips could have also been blamed for the sinking of the ship as the most recent warning of ice ahead to be transmitted to the Titanic, was received by Phillips, who failed to deliver it to the bridge. At 9:30 pm, the Mesaba sent a stark warning to the Titanic that ice was directly ahead. Phillips kept the message at his desk and continued to transmit routine messages to Cape Race. Assistant wireless operator Harold Bride reported later that he saw Phillip's body as he boarded the Carpathia when they were rescued.
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