"What is the central purpose of the poem?"
"The Convergence of the Twain"
This poem's central purpose was to shed new light on the sinking of the Titanic. He talks about how human vanity was the ship's main downfall. After all of the commotion of the opulent mirrors, jewels, and the ship's size, it was destined to sink anyways. Although the poem is about the sinking, the focus is more on showing the reader how unimportant worldy objects are, and how easily they can be taken away. He also wants to show that human vanity never ends well. The simple fish who are now swimming around the sea see it for what the ship really was- a display of human extravagance which wound up being utterly useless. The fish are perfectly happy in their simple world. The author also touches on the idea of destiny. His line about "Immanent Will" almost says that the iceberg was made for the ship. Their destinies collided when they did. God was the one controlling the ship, not the people who created it, or steered it, or even rode on it.
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