The Eagle by
Tennyson
The poem has a
very simple concept. It focuses on one eagle alone in the wild. In the first
line, the eagle is atop a mountain, poised to strike. He is high up where no
other animal or human can go. He is alone in his grandeur, with the sun and the
bright blue sky forming the perfect background scenery.
The second
stanza shows the only action of the eagle. The first and second line show that
as he watches from his high perch, the sea moves below him. Then, in the final
line, the eagle makes a grand dive towards the sea. The poem ends here, with
the reader not quite sure why the eagle dived off his mountain roost.
Thus the author encapsulates this tiny segment of nature a
majestic eagle diving from his lofty throne. Tennyson’s youthful image is
forever memorialized with complete exactness.
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