Eagles
Lord Alfred’s poem of an eagle waiting for prey is a perfect example of a marriage between sound and sense. The rhyme scheme in this poem is that the very last word in each line rhymes with each other. For example, “hands/lands/stands” and “crawls/walls/falls.” The poem begins with the strong image and sense of a strong bird grasping strongly on a steep rugged mass of rock projecting upward. Line 2 portrays the eagle standing close to the sun, meaning it is high up in the mountains and solitary untouched by humans. The eagle is shown surrounded by a clear daytime majestic sky. Underneath the eagle, line 4, is “ the wrinkled sea”, implying the waves of sea that he hovers above. In line 5 the eagle is portrayed to having possession of the mountain because he watches for his pray from his large protecting mountain walls. The poem ends with a rapid and sudden reversal of the tranquil imagery of the eagle in its grand habitat with a strong sound of a thunderbolt. The eagle dives after......
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