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Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 'The Kraken' 1 - Coggle Diagram
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 'The Kraken' 1
religion
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'latter fire', 'heat the deep' - Biblical lang - boiling seas - apocalypse, revelation
the Kraken is presented as an indescribable, monstrous entity
'upper deep' - juxtaposition, Tennyson creates questioning sense of human comprehension, how do we relate to this beast?
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'abysmal sea' - abysmal = extremely bad/appalling/frightful, monstrous semantic field brings a deeper layer to the monstrosities of this creature, even frightful at the level of word choice
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Key context:
Christopher Ricks: ¨Tennyson demonstrates a pained attention with the thought of a life which somehow is not a life at all¨
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the poem talks about the awakening of the kraken from below the depths of the sea. this is contrasted to the human fear than is within people. The kraken is generally seen as a myth, but in this poem its brought to life as something within people than will eventually release.