A shocking headline. The majestic unsinkable queen has been broken. Restingin the sea. Along with the lives of thousands. Mr.Hardy like many others reflects theheartbreaking loss which no one could have dreamt to have occur. Amidst the disbelief and shock, Hardy took the time to express his emotions in a poem , The Convergence of the Twain. Many poetic devices including juxtaposition, irony and metaphors are used toreflect Mr.Hardy’s remorse.In the first stanza, the writer introduces the topic of the poem. The Titanic,once a symbol of socialization and freedom, is now “in a solitude of the sea “. She is"Deep from human vanity", the very vanity that created her, and eventually sank her. Now the Titanic rests away from the human vanity that caused her to sink in the first place. The second stanza juxtaposes cold and hot, and perhaps it is a metaphor for lifeand death. It also contrasts the way the ship was in her unsinkable past, and how she is inher decomposing present condition. The cold steel chambers filled with arctic currents,are compared to the warm fires that used to burn brightly on the ship. Hardy uses theword "pyres" perhaps to infer to funeral pyres, and to add to the tone of loss. The writer recalls that the chambers are now filled with the rhythmic music of the sea, whichcontrasts with the chaos of the Titanic's last few hours afloat.Stanza three compares the civilized, wealthy world of the passengers of theTitanic, with the raw, natural world of the sea-worm. The reader is presented with amirror on the ship, originally intended to reflect the wealthy physiques of the passengersof the ship. However, now it reflects the sea-worm, that is uninterested in the lavish lifethat used to inhabit the ship. It is "dumb, indifferent", words that seem bitter, as if the