"The Kraken" (1830) analysis

The title of this poem gives a sensation of fear because of the legend it refers to as the kraken was a monster in the Nordic culture which talked about a giant monster with the form of an octopus that lived in the deepest parts of the North Sea and sometimes went to the surface to sink and fed of ships and their crew. This poem is about the kraken by itself and it's characteristics, also telling us his atmosphere, how the kraken lives referring to the characteristics of the depths were the kraken is supposed to live and that when it time comes man and angels will see it and then in the surface it will die. The deepest meaning of this poem is that this "monster" lives alienated from the world and this makes it feel the loneliness and in a try of end this solitude and sadness when it goes to the surface it unconsciously creates the chaos for what it is lonely and because of it's lonely living when his time comes it will go to the surface one last time to die, where everybody, angels and men, will see it. The lyric speaker uses a solemn tone which gives the sensation of sadness or the same loneliness. The lyric speaker changes it's mood from the beginning of the poem, when it was more like "epic" to the kraken, to a mood more solemn and sadder in the last half of the poem. The title of this poem it's meant to say about the loneliness and incomprehension of the author using as an example the creature known as "Kraken". The poet is saying the feeling he get of being lonely maybe because of some event that left him like this as it could be the death of a friend or loved one.