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    Alfred Tennison - The Eagle

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    Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Eagle" describes an eagle watching from its mountain perch with crooked hands clasping the crag. First published in 1842, the poem uses alliteration and assonance to vividly portray the eagle's view of the wrinkled sea below and its ability to strike like a thunderbolt as it falls from the sky. The simple rhyme scheme and memorable imagery have led to the poem becoming a favorite and frequently anthologized work.

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    Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Eagle" describes an eagle watching from its mountain perch with crooked hands clasping the crag. First published in 1842, the poem uses alliteration and assonance to vividly portray the eagle's view of the wrinkled sea below and its ability to strike like a thunderbolt as it falls from the sky. The simple rhyme scheme and memorable imagery have led to the poem becoming a favorite and frequently anthologized work.

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    Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Eagle" describes an eagle watching from its mountain perch with crooked hands clasping the crag. First published in 1842, the poem uses alliteration and assonance to vividly portray the eagle's view of the wrinkled sea below and its ability to strike like a thunderbolt as it falls from the sky. The simple rhyme scheme and memorable imagery have led to the poem becoming a favorite and frequently anthologized work.

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    Alfred Tennison - The Eagle

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    Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Eagle" describes an eagle watching from its mountain perch with crooked hands clasping the crag. First published in 1842, the poem uses alliteration and assonance to vividly portray the eagle's view of the wrinkled sea below and its ability to strike like a thunderbolt as it falls from the sky. The simple rhyme scheme and memorable imagery have led to the poem becoming a favorite and frequently anthologized work.

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    Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Eagle

    Perhaps one of the best known bird poems, Alfred, Lord Tennysons The Eagle.
    First pblished in !"#! in the se$enth edition of Tennysons Poems, it be%ame a fa$orite and
    is now fre&ently anthologi'ed. The alliteration and assonan%e tili'ed by Tennyson let the
    lyri%al $erses roll off of ones tonge and the imagery of the poem is as simple as the rhyme
    s%heme bt memorable. The first time ( got a good $iew of an eagles talons ( immediately
    thoght of %rooked hands.)
    The Eagle
    *e %lasps the %rag with %rooked hands+
    ,lose to the sn in lonely lands,
    -ingd with the a're world, he stands.
    The wrinkled sea beneath him %rawls+
    *e wat%hes from his montain walls,
    And like a thnderbolt he falls.

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