The Kraken

Question 1

Themes

Answer 1

Religion

Death

Nature

Time

Power

Question 2

Tennyson

Answer 2

Unclear religion

Haunted by mental illness(poem a metaphor of his fear)

Early talent for writing

At 12 wrote a 6000 line poem

Question 3

Techniques

Answer 3

Sibilance- connotations of sea, imagery

Juxtaposition of ‘rise’’die’- natural end

Negative lexis- represents mood of Victorian England, dark and restrained

Pantheistic broken sonnet- dark, worrying

Complicated rhyme scheme- reflects little knowledge of monster