The Kraken
Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides: above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages and will lie
Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
T: As we know for stories or movies, the kraken is a mysterious legendary sea creature who has the looks of a giant squid. It was told that this creature used to dwell the seas. In the poem written by Alfred Tennyson, I believe he maybe describe the creature, or an attack of the creature. A description could be indeed a poem, using metaphors or similes to make a relation between the creature and another object or creature in our daily life. Such a description would catch the attention of a specific audience, people who have a real interest in mysterious creatures that are told to be real and scientifically proved to be fake.
P: In the first two verses we have a description of the setting. Far beneath in the deep sea, we get the idea of somewhere dark, somewhere where there is total silence.
Later on in the third verse we know what this setting really is, and they tell us its where the ancient and dreamless creature sleeps, therefor, the place where the monster lives, his habitat.
