The Kraken Poem by Alfred Tennyson 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. About Alfred Lord Tennyson Lord Alfred Tennyson was born in 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England. At the age of twelve, written his first epic poem that consisted of 6,000 lines. In 1827 Tennyson attended Trinity College, Cambridge. He and his brother, Charles, co-published a book of poems titled, Poems by Two Brothers. Tennyson ded