 The German poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger took a post-modernist approach in "The Sinking of the Titanic" (1978), a book-length epic poem.Whereas Pratt reflects the sinking of the "Titanic" as a definite historical event, Enzensberger simultaneously incorporates documentation – including original news wires from 15 April 1915 – while questioning the degree to which the event has become obscured by the accumulated myth-building of popular memory.As Foster puts it, in the poem ""Titanic" bears the weight of our belief and our disbelief, our desire for apocalypse and our fear of it, our fatigue, our talkative demise, the unbearable lightness of our being."