Word bank:
flowstone, granitic, without cease, great stone room, black and ancient lake, rimstone pool, eyes dead white and sightless, eggs of spiders, crouching, pale and naked and translucent, alabaster bones, shadow, pulsed, dull glass bell, low moan, lurched away, soundlessly, dark
A beast of fear is at home in isolation, darkness, and silence. The narrator talks about a gave with flowstone walls that houses a granitic beast. The cave is dark and there in no sound. This beast is grotesque and animalistic. The imagery of the cave depicts a large, cold stone chamber. There is a "black and ancient lake", and the beast is lying on the far shore. The beast is pale and translucent, which is scary. It "crouches", showing that it is like an animal. It has no intelligence, hence "eyes dead white and sightless as the eggs of spiders". It is a pure creature. The beast is alive though, with a heart that pulses in a "dull glass bell". This depicts that the beast has no emotions. And it's "alabaster bones" show how scary it is. It has a "low moan" and it "lurches" silently in to the dark. These words and their imagery show how creature-like and brutal the beast is and how isolated it is. The cave and the beast fit each other.
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