Convergence of the Twain

Upon reading Thomas Hardy's Convergence of the Twain, I could not stop correlating every action or description in this poem to the movie Titanic.   The reasoning behind this has to do with the immense imagery contained in the poem.  The first three to four stanzas deal solely with visual descriptions of things that enable us to put pictures to the words we read.   As the poem progressed, I noticed that he was using a continuing and evolving metaphor.  The first evident example of the metaphor comes in line 9.  "The sea-worm crawls--grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent"(Hardy).  This quote puts a negative connotation to the presumed and stereotyped view that the extravagant Titanic had.  Hardy, by describing the ship in such light, is characterizing the ship and placing a name upon it based on the nature of those that the ship carries.  By nature, the ship is a floating piece of human vanity.  What surprises me more is that this surprisingly harsh and realistic view of the Titanic was published a very short amount of time following the sinking.