basking shark

• to stub an oar on a rock


  word choice - abrupt, unexpected
• To have it rise with a slounge out of the sea


  Word choice of 'slounge' -combination of slouch and lounge -suggests that the shark moved in a gentle relaxed manner
• is a thing that happened once (too often) to me


  he has no control and build mystery/ suspense
• i count as gain


  on reflection he sees this interaction as valuable
• that once i met 


  initially shock has worn off as the word choice of "met" suggests he now sees him as an equal
• sea tin-tacked with rain


  metaphor/pathetic fallacy - compares the raindrops to tacks suggesting the rain was painful when it hit and thus the experience was painful
• That roomsized monster with a matchbox brain


  metaphor - sees him as inferior
• he shoggled me


  word choice - colloquialism meaning shook or moved. shows that he still has no control
• this decadent townee


  word choice of 'decadent' suggests elegant sophistication which contrasts with the simple colloquialism of 'townee' given to someone from the city by the island dwellers
• shook on a wrong branch of his family tree


  word choice of 'family tree' suggests the prehistoric connection between all living things reminding us that were all related
• emerging from the slime of everything 


  word choice - has connotations of Darwin's theory of evolution and that all living things are connected by a common ancestor
• so who's the monster?


  rhetorical question - reflecting on the destruction caused by the human race
• the tall fin slid away and then the tail


  lasting impression is not a monster but a beautiful creature