Destruction of Vanity

"The Convergence of the Twain," is a deceiving poem because it is introduced as a work based on the loss of the 'Titanic,' a prominent ship that sunk in 1912. This statement encourages the reader to believe it will be a non-fictional poem. However, the poem does not only retell the events that took place the day the ship sank, but its theme reflects the destruction of human vanity. Similar to the wealthy people of that time, the ship was the pinnacle of engineering, holding high respect in the eyes of the world. It was meant to be great, but ended up at the bottom of the sea, just as human vanity took the people down. Now, the ship lies in the same spot it has for almost one hundred years, and nobody pays mind to it anymore. In the end, nobody cares how much money or fame the wealthy have, it is all irrelevant. In the poem, the terms "Immanent Will" and "Spinner of Years" are capitalized; therefore, I assumed they served as symbols. "Immanent Will" represents fate, or the decision made by God; the "Spinner of Years" represents God himself, the one who controls everything and everyone. These symbols add to the theme "destruction of vanity" because it was God who destroyed the world with a flood in order to abolish human arrogance.