The Kraken by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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 fins the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep; 
Then once by men and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die

T: I think that the title refers to the monster of the sea that I have seen in some movies.

P: It tells us about the Kraken: characteristics, how does it lives very deep under the sea, that the monster is alone.

C: By the figurative language we can say that the Kraken is alone and is considered by the people as something bad, like a monster. Its very literal in the description of the Kraken, describing his characteristics and his 'routine'. In the poem they are some literary devices such as metaphors, like the one that is in the first verse.

A: Mysterious, is like telling the legend of a ancient creature that live very deep in the see, were no one else can go, so no one really knows about this creature (except the speaker) so its a very mysterious theme.

S: The tone is the same during the whole poem, by a constant use of imagery.

T: The title is very literal, I mean, the poem is about the Kraken.

T: As I said before, the poem is about the mysterious creature called Kraken and the characteristics of this creature.