"...Or sign that they were bent By paths coincident On being anon twin halves of one august event," - Thomas Hardy
I think the "twin halves" the speaker focus on are symbolic of a few different things, some of which are probably not right.
- The most obvious- the actual halves of the sinking ship. The Titanic hit an iceberg and literally was split in two halves. One half sank slowly until the other half was basically 90 degrees from the water. It then plummeted under the water following the other half of the boat.
- It could mean the iceberg that the Titanic struck. The whole crisis could have been averted if the captain of the ship would have realized the iceberg he saw had a "twin half" underneath the water. That's what the ship really hit, and that's the real reason the ship sank.
- It could also refer to the night of the sinking. The beginning of the night was bustling and people were having a grand time, just like any other night. Then drastically, the night turned into disorder. The second half of the night was still busy, but in an unexpectedly terrible way.
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