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    This document provides an analysis of the poem "The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It summarizes that the poem has two stanzas in a tercet form, with the first stanza depicting the eagle preparing to strike and the second showing its attack. Literary devices like alliteration and imagery are used to set the scene. The overall theme is that calm often precedes storms, as seen in the eagle watching calmly from the mountains before swiftly striking.

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    This document provides an analysis of the poem "The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It summarizes that the poem has two stanzas in a tercet form, with the first stanza depicting the eagle preparing to strike and the second showing its attack. Literary devices like alliteration and imagery are used to set the scene. The overall theme is that calm often precedes storms, as seen in the eagle watching calmly from the mountains before swiftly striking.

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    This document provides an analysis of the poem "The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It summarizes that the poem has two stanzas in a tercet form, with the first stanza depicting the eagle preparing to strike and the second showing its attack. Literary devices like alliteration and imagery are used to set the scene. The overall theme is that calm often precedes storms, as seen in the eagle watching calmly from the mountains before swiftly striking.

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    The Eagle

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    This document provides an analysis of the poem "The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It summarizes that the poem has two stanzas in a tercet form, with the first stanza depicting the eagle preparing to strike and the second showing its attack. Literary devices like alliteration and imagery are used to set the scene. The overall theme is that calm often precedes storms, as seen in the eagle watching calmly from the mountains before swiftly striking.

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    Nick Wolcott

    English 91B

    08 February 2011

    “The Eagle” Poetic Analysis

    The poem, “The Eagle” was written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This poem is a lyrical poem. There are

    two stanzas and they are both tercets. The speaker talks in a calm solemn voice. In the first stanza the

    eagle prepares to strike. In the second it attacks.

    Tennyson uses a variety of literary devices in his poem. He uses alliteration in the first line, “He

    clasps the crag with crooked hands.” This device helps portray a rough environment be using the

    cacophonous sound of the letter c. Also Tennyson uses imagery, “Ring’d with the azure world,” (line

    3). Using imagery here builds an image in the readers mind. It makes them feel like they are there. The

    author's tone is very calm. The reader can see this in line four when he says, “The wrinkled sea beneath

    him crawls.” The fact that the author said crawl makes the reader feel a quiet environment.

    The over all theme of the poem is it is always calmest before the storm. The reader sees

    examples of this in line five where he “He watches from his mountain walls.” This excerpt shows that

    the eagle is waiting to strike after the calmness of line four. Also in line six “like a thunderbolt he falls.”

    The author uses the diction of thunderbolt because it is fast and deadly and that is how the eagle planed

    its attack.

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