The Eagle "- By Alfred Lord Tennyson
"The Eagle" is written by great Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. He was the foremost representative of Victorian Poet.

Title of the poem "The Eagle" refers to the eagle, which is the subject of the poem. And the title is sounds as if it will literally be about an eagle, probably about nature and how powerful the eagle is. The poem invokes a feeling of the great, majestic eagle. And the author speaks along with the eagle, he refers to the eagle with high terms, both literally and figuratively.
Theme:
The theme of this poem is eagle and its grandeur. This is stressed at many points throughout the poem.
Line to line analysis:

He claps the crag with crooked hands;
The eagle grasps the rocky bluff with gnarled claws. He is perched atop this hill as he looks down on the world below him. Also in this poem is the personification used as the poet says the eagle as "he" and he has "hands" which a eagle did not have.
Close to the sun in lonely lands
The eagle is near the sun and is alone, high above any other organisms, in the sky. The "lonely lands" may refer to the upper troposphere.
Ring's with the azure worlds, he stands.
The eagle is the blue sky, as it is the place where the bird spends most of its time. Also the eagle looks like
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
The world below the eagle looks so insignificant to the eagle, as the eagle enjoys his Majestic throne in the sky.
He watches from his mountain walls,
The eagle is watching the world from its perch on the mountainous terrain.
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
The eagle goes down with the speed
So, the poem has personal and Christian, mythological or religious and political references. The eagle could be tennyson, or any proud person, or Christ or the devil or America or a warning to colonial Britain about the consequences of pries, even if seen at consequences and allegorically. But it is basically a nature poem, praising the eagle's beauty and power.
"The Eagle" is written by great Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. He was the foremost representative of Victorian Poet.

Title of the poem "The Eagle" refers to the eagle, which is the subject of the poem. And the title is sounds as if it will literally be about an eagle, probably about nature and how powerful the eagle is. The poem invokes a feeling of the great, majestic eagle. And the author speaks along with the eagle, he refers to the eagle with high terms, both literally and figuratively.
Theme:
The theme of this poem is eagle and its grandeur. This is stressed at many points throughout the poem.
Line to line analysis:

He claps the crag with crooked hands;
The eagle grasps the rocky bluff with gnarled claws. He is perched atop this hill as he looks down on the world below him. Also in this poem is the personification used as the poet says the eagle as "he" and he has "hands" which a eagle did not have.
Close to the sun in lonely lands
The eagle is near the sun and is alone, high above any other organisms, in the sky. The "lonely lands" may refer to the upper troposphere.
Ring's with the azure worlds, he stands.
The eagle is the blue sky, as it is the place where the bird spends most of its time. Also the eagle looks like
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
The world below the eagle looks so insignificant to the eagle, as the eagle enjoys his Majestic throne in the sky.
He watches from his mountain walls,
The eagle is watching the world from its perch on the mountainous terrain.
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
The eagle goes down with the speed
So, the poem has personal and Christian, mythological or religious and political references. The eagle could be tennyson, or any proud person, or Christ or the devil or America or a warning to colonial Britain about the consequences of pries, even if seen at consequences and allegorically. But it is basically a nature poem, praising the eagle's beauty and power.
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