The driving force behind this particular work is the use of irony to ascertain a deeper meaning to the human condition. In David R. Slavitt’s “Titanic”, suggests that death would be better if we went down with other people around us. That with “crowds of people, friends, servants, well fed, with music, [and] with lights” (lines 5-6) would be a much better end than to go down “mostly alone” (4-5). The narrator argues that dying with others would be much more preferable than to dying alone. By using the symbolic icon of the Titanic he is able to give a little perspective to his way of thinking and making the reader think a lot harder about what he is suggesting. “Who does not love the Titanic” (1) is the first clue to the ironic nature of the
