The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Eagle BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. Paraphrase of the Poem, The Eagle The eagle handgrips with his twisted hands, the tor which is very high, reaching close to the sun and a very lonely place which is beyond the reach of none. And thus the eagle stands on the tor and appears surrounded by the azure sky. Below this high rock, the mighty ocean full of wrinkles on the face appears crawling before the mountain wall on which the Eagle stands. The kingly eagle watches everything below in the sea and on the right time, falls like a thunderbolt. Explanation and Analysis of the poem 'The Eagle' "The Eagle" by Alfred Lord Tennyson captures the majestic power, freedom and indomitable spirit of the Eagle, the king of birds in a mere six ...