The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The Eagleby Alfred Lord Tennyson

• He clasps the crag with hooked handsClose to
  the sun in lonely lands,Ringed with the azure
  world, he stands.The wrinkled sea beneath him
  crawlsHe watches from his mountain walls,And
  like a thunderbolt he falls.

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He clasps the crag with hooked hands
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Close to the sun in lonely lands,
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Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
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The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls
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He watches from his mountain walls,
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And like a thunderbolt he falls.
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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

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

• Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), English poet often
  regarded as the chief representative of the
  Victorian age in poetry. Tennyson succeeded
  Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850.Alfred,
  Lord Tennyson was born on August 5, 1809 in
  Somersby, Lincolnshire. His father, George
  Clayton Tennyson, a clergyman and rector,
  suffered from depression and was notoriously
  absentminded. Alfred began to write poetry at an
  early age in the style of Lord Byron. After
  spending four unhappy years in school he was
  tutored at home. Tennyson then studied at Trinity
  College, Cambridge, where he joined the literary
  club 'The Apostles' and met Arthur Hallam, who
  became his closest friend. Tennyson published
  Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830, which included
  the popular "Mariana".

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The Eagle

• First publication date 1851 RPO poem editor H.
  M. McLuhanRP edition 3RP 3.55.Recent editing
  22002/1/10
• The Eagle was first published in 1851. This
  short poem displays a strong musical sense, words
  such as Crag, Azure and Thunderbolt not
  only fit the meaning of the poem but also fit the
  slow musical sensibility which gives the poem
  its thoughtful, almost worshipful tone. At the
  end of the poem it is unclear as to what the fait
  of the eagle is. It leaves the ending to your
  imagination, does the eagle become ill? Does he
  lose his ability to fly, that would be what the
  poem suggests as on the last line it ends the
  poem with the words he falls. Or it could be
  that it is using this phrase to describe the
  eagle swooping for its prey. The poem is so short
  that it offers little background as to what
  really does happen at the end of the poem.