The Kraken

Alfred Lord Tennyson * Track #103 On The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The Kraken by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Tennyson’s poem is a flight of imagination, the significance of which is open to interpretation. Many readers see the Kraken as representing peace which only human intervention can awaken and destroy. It could be a metaphor for human destructiveness. It could also be an attempt to develop the tales...

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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
Unnumber'd and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms 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 man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

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