The Convergence of the Twain

In the poem The Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy, one of the themes is fate. Throughout the course of the poem, it talks about the fate that occurred in the sinking of the Titanic. It talks about how it was fate that the iceberg was unseen by the captain of the Titanic. In fact, the poem talks about how icebergs, before the Titanic, seemed to go unnoticed by all people. "Alien they seemed to be" (Hardy, 25). The poem talks about how it was no coincidence that the ship ran into the ice burg, but that it was fate. The first half of the poem implies the idea that Titanic was invincible. The poem describes a ship that was so strong that it could withhold anything that came its way. "Steel chamber, late the pyres of her salamandrine fires" (Hardy, 4-5). The steel chamber leads the reader to infer that the boat was made so that physically nothing could destroy it. The salamandrine fires implies the fact that the ship could even hold and fight off a fire on the ship. Even though the ship seemed invincible, according to the poem, fate brought the ship to the iceberg and lead to its demise.