THE EAGLE By Lord Tennyson

  

THE EAGLE

By Lord Tennyson

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. 

The Eagle has been written by Tennyson who was prominent figure of the Victorian Age.it is very short poem, which has also a meaning. Here the glory of the Eagle has been shown in the poem by the poet that how The Eagle flies in the sky. Tennyson uses the color word ‘azure’, which literally means bright blue, and this blue sky is ringed around the eagle.

 Therefore the power of the Eagle has been manifested in the poem. At the beginning of the poem the poet says that Eagle claps with crooked hands and very close to the sun while in the second stanza the poet conveys that the Eagle observes all the things from the mountain and he falls like a thunderbolt so here the figure of speech is used in the last line that,

          And like a thunderbolt he falls. 

      So here Simile can be found in this line while on the other hand he also utilizes series of metaphors in the same poem to show the power as well as greatness of the Eagle.