Question

The book Robertson wrote was titled Futility. Write the significance of the title

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Explanation:

Its title, “Futility,” ultimately comes from a Latin word meaning easily broken or worthless. This title, then, is especially appropriate to this poem. Futility is a novella written by Morgan Robertson and published as Futility in 1898, and revised as The Wreck of the Titan in 1912. It features a fictional British ocean liner Titan that sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. Titan and its sinking are famous for similarities to the passenger ship RMS Titanic and its sinking fourteen years later. After the sinking of Titanic the novel was reissued with some changes, particularly in the ship's gross tonnage