The Convergence of the Twain

The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy wrote this poem with a very evident chronological disruption midway through the poem. Unlike most poets who keep their poems in sequential order to maintain suspense throughout the poem, Hardy seemed to believe that the subject of the Titanic was so well known that there was not any reason to keep the readers in sus-pense of what impending doom awaited the Titanic. Instead, he commenced his poem with …

…cries of man clamoring, "I'm the king on the world!" as in the movie "Titanic" God responds as in the poem, with the event when God said "now!"(line 32) and renders unto humanity the knowledge that He is the ultimate King of everything. Accordingly, God sends this vain gloriousness made by humans down to the bottom of the sea as a symbol of the vanity of the age, thereby indicating his power over human vanity.