The shrimp is smallness in multitude — the ocean's tiny abundance, feeding whales by the ton. Called small as an insult, it feeds the largest things alive: the minor sustaining the immense.
Positive Resonance
The small sustaining the vast, abundance in miniature
Shadow Aspect
Dismissed for size, consumed by the ton
Nuances
Swarms of shrimp: the tiny at multitude scale
Feeding the whale: the small sustaining the greatest
Called a shrimp: size as slight
The shrimp's punch: the mantis shrimp's disproportionate strike