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The Cargo Hulks

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The development of ships has allowed people to export goods all over the world and to also travel usefully. In the poem “The Cargo Hulks” written by Peter Trower and the story “Breaking Ships” by Roland Buerk, the texts both discuss the ships that are used in people’s lives. In both texts, the ships both undergo unforeseen value change as the writer’s use literary terms to show this and while these texts talk about the expected worth of Cargo Hulks and The Asian Tiger, the worth of them differ subsequently. In both text talk about the likely worth of the two types of ships. The Cargo Hulks can splash within the seas and “the howling changeling of the Horn, shrouds under full stress bulging” (20). The Cargo hulk is made as a dominant ship as

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