The Convergence of the Twain

The Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy

This poem, by Thomas Hardy, takes a unique new view of the infamous sinking of the titanic unlike that of other literature. For one, the poem fixates much less than the actual people aboard, but rather the ship itself and its sinking. With the use of personification, he writes of the inescapable fate of the ship and the iceberg. The poet writes, "No mortal eye could see/ On The intimate welding of their later history" (Hardy 779). He compares the meeting of the Titanic and the iceberg as an intimate relationship. As if by fate these two counterparts would one day diverge and meet. He writes of the whole situation almost with a sense of awe and wonder. This is quite ironic considering that he writes of such a very infamous and horrific event. With the submission of the human side of the story, the speaker is actually quite right by his interpretation. It was quite an awesome event. See what I did there?