The Kraken Analysis

"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.

Type of analysis: TP-CASTT

Title: By reading the title I can infer that the poem will be about a fiction tale told in a narrative way, maybe the adventure of an old sailor man.

Paraphrase: There is an old kraken living in the deep of the sea. It is giant and old, his time has already passes and now he is resting in the deep awaiting his dead.

Connotation: Behind the description of the great monster, the author keeps on repeating that the kraken is old and his time has come. That implies that even enormous, dangerous and old creatures are nothing when confronting the time, and soon or later it will die.

Attitude: The author talks in a melancholic way, as if he respected the Kraken and feel inspired by it, but it's time has come and the monster will die soon, so he makes this memorial of it.

Shifts: The lyric speakers keeps the same throughout the poem

Title: After reading the poem I know that the title referred to the creature and a description of it and his life.

Theme: The poet is saying that the kraken once was the fear of every living thing in the sea, but now he is in agony because of his age.