Crappy Movie Titanic Somehow Fit Into Graduate Essay

Here it is. I turned this in tonight after typing it during commericals of That 70's Show:

I love the idea of people using the lyric I as a way of taking the chaotic universe around us and recasting it in a small, more personal light. I’ve read few stories or novels that hold a reader’s interest without focusing on the smaller trials of characters in a larger, tumultuous world. This is a cheesy example, but think of the movie blockbuster Titanic with Leonardo de Caprio and Kate Winslet. As the Titanic sinks, grandly and over three hours of film, with dozens of people meeting their icy fate, what keeps the audience focused on the story without getting overwhelmed is the relationship of the two young lovers, one of whom dies and one of whom lives to tell the tale, years later, as the old woman. The old woman serves as witness, as the “I” in the story. In his essay "Poetry and Survival" Gregory Orr says, “The personal lyric steps forward and says: ‘Bring me your disorder. Turn your confused world into words and I, in turn, will step forward with my primordial ordering principles of story, symbol, and incantation.’ ” After reading Orr’s essay, I’m not surprised Titanic was a blockbuster, despite the obvious lame dialogue and melodrama. Its creators were simply following the rules of the lyric I and in doing so gave their audience everything thing they wanted: a connection to a small, human part of a huge historical event.