"Over the mirrors meant
to glass the opulent
The sea-worm crawls-grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent."
The thing I like most about this poem was the contrast between the images. There is such a strong picture of the elegance and beauty of the Titanic, but then there is the description of the disgusting sea creatures. In general, I really enjoyed reading this poem. The Titanic has always fascinated me because of the time period and because of how invincible the ship was meant to be. The way the author described the collision of the Titanic and the iceberg as imminent is interesting. They are "twin halves" destined to meet on that day in 1912. This collision is due mainly to the "human vanity." If people had not been so pompous and sure of their infallibility, more precautions would have been taken, and thousands of lives could have been saved.
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