Review of South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon’s poem ‘Another Titanic’

I request readers to read the poem from the link below and then only my review. Thanks. https://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/poem/17502/auto/0/0/Kim-Hyesoon/Another-Titanic/en/tile The reader gets the entire content of the poem from the first line ‘Another Titanic, now a pot.’ The poet uses two metaphors: the Titanic ship that sank hitting an iceberg and a cooker in a kitchen that was made out of the scrap of the original Titanic ship. As the poem nears its end the reader gets there are daily happenings which are comparable (poetically) with the historical sink of the Titanic. The following lines are crucial: When the ship collides with the iceberg, white as a movie screen, my day’s apparition sinks into the night ocean. The poet compares the day sinking into the ocean of night with the sinking of the Titanic. The reader gets she is pointing to the sinking and its significance and not comparing the ship and herself. The only thing common between the pressure cooker and the ship is they were made of the same alloy. But is there any difference between the impacts of a sinking irrespective of the size of what sank? The day is so taxing and demanding that its sinking into the night has nothing positive or promising; because the chores in cooking and cleaning continue during night also. Subtly the poet points at the inescapable struggles of real life and its uncertainties. A parallel thread in the poem is the compulsory load of house chores on women. The following line makes it clear: “Another Titanic” brand rice cooker: Is this really my voyage? In Asian countries this is still an unresolved issue for females. Their plight has not changed for ages. Their frustration at evening when day sinks into night is taken lightly, but it is no less than the sinking of the giant Titanic. The poet swaps between the ship and the kitchen smoothly taking the reader along. The poem is a rare attempt to compare a tiny kitchen and a giant ship. Such attempts make the reader and aspiring writers as well understand the liberties and scopes available for the creator in the genre.