The Kraken Poem AnlysisThe Kraken Poem 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."


The title of the poem suggest a reference to a mythical creature, representing a giant octopus that destroyed ships in medieval times.
The first two verses situates the poem into a deep abysmal sea; repeated on And far away into the sickly light. The ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep suggest that the kraken has always been there, and that has been eternal during the story of the earth. This idea is repeated in Huge sponges of millennial growth and height. 
This poem means nothing beyond what it is, the life of an eternal kraken that has always been there and will devour complete ships with the people con board.
The attitude is mystical, inserting the reader into a weird mysterious mood.
The poem has no shifts, is monotone, maintaining the deep mysterious mood untouched.
Nothing in the poem stops following the main line of the idea of the kraken. The title remains as the main idea and will always be the centre of the focus of the lyric piece.
The mystery of deep ocean abysmal profundities and the description of the tremendous octopus swallowing the blood of the sailors aboard will remain as the main theme of the poem.