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The Eagle
The poem "The Eagle" by Alfred Lord Tennyson is often admired as much as the majestic bird itself. From the very beginning in the first line "He clasps the crag with crooked hands" readers see...
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The speaker says that the eagle "clasps the crag with crooked hands" (line 1). The word clasps indicates how tightly the eagle clings to his leadership position; he seems tenacious, even...
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In this brief poem, "crooked hands" is being used to describe an eagle's crooked claws. The eagle, often described as a noble and regal creature, is old and decrepit. The eagle still sits high on a...
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In line 3, when the narrator describes the eagle as "ring'd with the azure world," he means that the eagle is surrounded with or encircled by the bluest of blue skies: azure is the name of this...
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On one level, the poem could just be about the experience of an eagle. He's up on a mountaintop, by himself, in a clear blue and sunny sky. The eagle is up so high that the sea looks like...
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The eagle is personified in Tennyson's poem. Personification occurs when human qualities are given to an object or an animal. The eagle "clasps," has "hands" and "stands" as he surveys the blue sea...
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This poem has never struck me as addressing the qualities of a good leader; rather, it seems to outline the qualities of a rather bad leader, one who is more concerned with retaining his power and...
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In the first line, the speaker describes the eagle standing on a rock. The rock is a crag which is an uneven rock. His "hands" are crooked. The repetition of the "c" sound signifies the tough life...
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No, the poem isn't just about a bird; we can also interpret it as a comment on absolute power and the effects of such power on humans. Personifying the eagle as having "crooked hands," gives us a...
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Romantic literature tends to focus on the wonders of nature, the importance of the individual and his or her experiences, and intense emotion as a means of establishing truth. "The Eagle," by...
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson is considered one the finest English Romantic poets. As with William Wordsworth, his contemporary and predecessor as Poet Laureate of England, Tennyson wrote many poems...
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First, the eagle is personified, described as having "hands," and this is a big clue that he represents more than just an eagle (line 1). In addition, the fact that his hands are described as...
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"The Eagle" is a poem by Tennyson consisting of two three-line stanzas. The meter of the poem is iambic tetrameter. The rhyme scheme is AAA BBB. The punctuation follows the normal conventions of...
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I do agree that "The Eagle" isn't mere description. It if were, it is unlikely that we would care very much about reading it, especially nearly two hundred years after it was written. The point of...
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Critic Herbert F. Tucker wrote of Tennyson's poetry: Tennyson’s theme and imagery gravitate toward some inevitable ground on the power of God, the drift of nature, or the obsessions of human...
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One of the prominent themes in this poem is that even the most majestic of creatures (including people) have limitations. In poetry and literature, the eagle is often a symbol for majesty, power,...
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson is considered one of the greatest English Romantic poets of the 19th century. He held, for many years, the prestigious position of Poet Laureate of England. Like all Romantic...
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Along with Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Shelley and Keats, Alfred, Lord Tennyson is considered one of the premiere English Romantic poets. Romantic poetry often focused on nature. For example, one of...
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Nature is depicted as being quite beautiful due to the imagery Tennyson employs. We can visualize a majestic eagle atop a "crag" -- a rocky and rugged mountaintop -- who is "Close to the sun"...
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I think Tennyson is trying to do one of two things by using the pronoun "he" to describe the bird. He could be trying to elevate and equate the bird with humans, or Tennyson could be trying to...
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Natural law can refer to observable rules that relate to things in nature, and, in this sense, I believe "The Eagle" does address natural law. The eagle in this poem has supreme power: he can fly...
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The poet, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, likely describes the eagle as having "hands" rather than "claws" or "talons" because he wants to make it clear that the poem isn't just about an eagle. On the one...
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On one level, this poem could be read as an actual depiction of an eagle that employs some figurative language to achieve a more compelling and dramatic effect. On another level, this poem can be...
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The eagle is the active figure in the poem and seems to possess the power of choice in addition to an implied power to destroy. In these ways, the eagle may be said to be presented as a symbol of...
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The poem 'The Eagle' by the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson is written from the point of view of an observer as we can see by the lines 'He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely...
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The Eagle
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Eagle" is a six line poem. It is written using two tercets (stanzas containing three lines). For the most part, the meter of the poem is iambic tetrameter. An iamb is a...
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Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Eagle" gives very specific qualities to the main subject of the poem: the eagle. Within each line, one can identify specific traits the eagle possesses. "He crasps the...
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This imagery poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson originates from his experiences while traveling as a young man in the Pyrenees. The poem was written before Tennyson was respected as one of the great...
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “The Eagle” uses imagery to portray the king of the skies: the eagle. Tennyson traveled in the Pyrenees where he often saw eagles circling overhead. The beauty...
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Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert were admirers of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poetry. Tennyson was named the national poet of Great Britain. After his knighting, he became the most renowned...
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Lord Alfred Tennyson's poem "The Eagle" speaks to a dying eagle which falls into the sea beneath him. The poem is a short six line poem, broken into two stanzas. Each stanza is called a tercet...
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"The wrinkled sea" could be a wonderfully imaginative description of the peaks and valleys formed by the waves below the eagle's viewpoint as the tide "crawls" in and out along the shoreline....
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The master of the skies! “The Eagle” has no equal in his domain. Alfred Lord Tennyson portrays this magnificent bird of prey with its great vision, powers of flight, and powerful talons....
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In Tennyson's poem The Eagle, certain things about the eagle are stressed based upon the form and rhyme of the poem. For example, in the first line, Tennyson is stressing the eagle's hands: "He...
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This language to describe the sea is actually really interesting and creative. Think about what the sea looks like when you are standing on the shore: the waves have some amount of height (a few...
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Not all poetry includes moral or ethical lessons. Sometimes, a poet is simply moved by an experience, an emotion, or a happening and feels as though the only way to capture it is to write it down...
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This short poem fragment does a magnificent job of conveying the strength and majesty of an eagle. The six lines suggest more than a prose paragraph might! Just as the eagle in the poem is solitary...
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The first way in which these words work is by alliteration. The sequence ``clasps – crag - crooked – Close – crawls` repeats a harsh initial consonant, adding dramatic intensity to the poem...
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This little gem of a poem packs quite a vivid description of an eagle into a mere 6 lines! The poem describes a lone eagle as it perches on a stoney outcrop above water below. In the last line...
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This short little poem is loaded with literary devices that connect to the overall intention of the poem which is to present the majesty of an eagle. Here are few of note: the claws of the eagle...
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It is not easy to have much of a story line with a poem that is that short... What do you think is going on here? What is an eagle doing when it falls like a thunderbolt? To me, the storyline is...
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There is much in the poem to indicate that the animal in the poem can be seen as a metaphor for the human experience. One element that depicts the human predicament is the idea that the eagle is...
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Tennyson's poem is a very interesting study in the natural world and those creatures who inhabit it. The opening two lines establish the exposition of an eagle set atop a high mountain. The third...
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A simile is a comparison of two unlike things using a word such as like or as to compare the two things. The fence posts stood like sentries between the two empty fields of grass. The fence posts...
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Listening to poetry with metered verse and music with lyrics (other than rap, which often accentuates the wrong syllable) would probably help. Only significant exposure to a language will help your...
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This is an interesting question. I did not know that there was an alternative version of this poem. The change was probably made for alliteration's sake--to continue the hard "c" sound in the first...
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A complete paraphrase of the this short poem could be the following: He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. There is a...
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The eagle is being compared to a thunderbolt in line six using a simile: "And like a thunderbolt he falls." In the first part of Tennyson's poem, we see the eagle perched high upon a...
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To find stressed and unstressed syllables, you have to listen carefully to yourself as you read the verses, preferably aloud. Which syllables, not words, do you emphasize? For instance, consider...
