The Kraken (Alfred Lord Tennyson) — Epic Poetic Song Adaptation | Kraken Unbound

📜 About the Poem: *The Kraken* by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1830)

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) was one of the greatest Victorian poets, later serving as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. His works often explore myth, legend, and the mysterious forces of nature. “The Kraken,” first published in 1830 in *Poems, Chiefly Lyrical*, is a sonnet that imagines a vast sea monster lying in the depths of the ocean, hidden and undisturbed for ages. It reflects both fascination with the unknown and the Romantic era’s blending of myth with natural imagery.

💡 Fun Trivia:
- Tennyson breaks the traditional 14-line sonnet form: “The Kraken” has 15 lines, making it an unusual and striking poem.
- The Kraken in the poem has been interpreted as a metaphor for deep unconscious forces or even as a vision of apocalyptic awakening.
- This poem influenced later depictions of sea monsters in Victorian literature and beyond, connecting myth with science’s then-growing exploration of the deep sea.

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📝 Original Poem (1830)

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.

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