He runs down a list of living things that can be destroyed on a whim including: a gourd fruit that he mashes, a cricket whose legs are plucked off, and birds that he wants to crush.
Its epigraph taken from Psalms reads "Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." The first 23 lines are in brackets suggesting the title character is talking to himself and trying not to be heard. He runs down a list of living things that can be destroyed on a whim including: a gourd fruit that he mashes, a cricket whose legs are plucked off, and birds that he wants to crush. Though he revokes "the Quiet" who may have made his God, the poem ends with the coming of a storm that seems to reaffirm his servile position to various others on the island including the cursed Ariel and his master Prospero. FTP identify this dramatic monologue about the son of Sycorax musing a work by Robert Browning.
Its epigraph taken from Psalms reads "Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself."
Caliban upon Setebos