The Creature

• One hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me.
• A grin wrinkled his cheek
• Men appear to me as monsters, thirsting for each other's blood.
• Licked it with their forked and destroying tongues

  • serpent imagery, 'the fall', monster is in control, innately cruel
• He seemed to jeer as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife

  • parallel to his 'birth'
  • evil, cruel, intentional, mocking
• Born away by the waves and lost in the darkness and distance

  • closing words
  • evoke sympathy
  • assonance, slow and saddening
  • darkness and distance juxtapose and reflect reality of human society