The Cargo Hulks, by Peter Trower, and Breaking Ships, by Roland Buerk are two literary pieces that touch on the destruction of past works, controversy, and the coming of a new age. The Cargo Hulks is a poem describing two conflicting forces but an end in one, and survival in the other. Breaking Ships touches on the recycling of an oil tanker, The Asian Tiger, explores controversial issues, and shows how desperation can lead to people making difficult decisions.
The Cargo Hulks is about old ships carrying freight that go through several obstacles and eventually meet their end. They fight with the ferocious sea and struggle until the end. In the last moments of their life, memories [melt] in the cold reality of rain, and its history goes down
