Thomas Hardy's poem The Convergence of the Twain was structurally written in a unique way. The eleven different stanzas coordinated well with the formation of the ship and with its lead up to the destruction of it. There was one section of this poem that really stood out to me. "Alien they seemed to be: No mortal eye could see/The intimate welding of their later history" (Hardy, 779). The quote has a lot of deep meaning to me. This quote stresses that the ice berg that sunk the ship and the great Titanic were growing at the same time. That is just so awesome to think about. Everything has a reason. I believe that it was fate that the two collided. This poem exemplifies this because the speaker says expresses that although the two objects seemed to be completely unrelated, they would one day be joined together forever.
The concept of fate in this poem is significant. Hardy was writing this to prove a point. I believe this point to be that there was an ultimate and greater reason for the Titanic to sink. Hardy wanted to show that the Titanic sunk to discourage the mindset of those that the ship was built for. Beauty and wealth isn't so important when you look at the big picture. All of the parts of the ship that were made for only the very well off are pretty insignificant rotting away at the bottom of the ocean.
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