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- The poem "The Eagle" by Lord Alfred Tennyson consists of two stanzas with three lines each.
- The structure of the poem is unique for Tennyson, featuring aligned lines and a regular rhyme scheme of AAA – BBB.
- The poem personifies the eagle, highlighting its power and strength through vivid imagery.
- In the first stanza, the setting is the sky; in the second stanza, it shifts to the sea.
- A single simile is used in line six, comparing the eagle's descent to a thunderbolt.
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
This short poem was written by Lord Alfred Tennyson, and it’s part of the poem’s collection “In Memoriam”.
The poem is composed by two stanzas of 3 lines. It represent an exception to the Tennyson’s structural scheme, in fact, you can notice that it’s a short poem and lines are aligned. Each line begins with capital letter, there is a regular punctuation and the rhyme scheme is regular: AAA – BBB.
In the whole poem there is a personification of the eagle and an exaltation of his power and strength. There is just a simile in line 6 “And like a thunderbolt”. In the first stanza the setting is the sky, while in the second is the sea.
The power of the eagle let me think to a sentence of “L’ombra del gigante” an Eros Ramazzotti’ s song: “delle onde, del cielo e del mare è il padrone assoluto lo sai”.
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