text: Simon Armitage borrowed the title and form of a poem about this event for his own poem about 9/11.
full_question: Simon Armitage borrowed the title and form of a poem about this event for his own poem about 9/11. Victoria Tammurai, her husband Richard, and their son Teddy partake in this event in a one-act Christopher Durang play, while the nouveau riche Thomas Morgan also witnesses it in Beryl Bainbridge's Every Man for Himself. A poem about this event mentions "salamandrine fires" and a "grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent" animal crawling. In that poem, this event occurs when "the Spinner of the Years" says "Now!" That poem, which appeared in Satires of Circumstance, consisting of eleven rhyming tercets, describes the "Immanent Will" ordaining this event, in which "a Shape of Ice" threatens "a smart ship." For 10 points, Thomas Hardy's "The Convergence of the Twain" is about what 1912 maritime disaster?
first_sentence: Simon Armitage borrowed the title and form of a poem about this event for his own poem about 9/11.
raw_answer: the sinking of the RMS Titanic