How Tenyson Describes The Eagle

I remember seeing my pinewood derby car going down the track; it was silver, blue letters on it that said sonic and black wheels that sounded like a hot wheels car going down a track. I was only 6 years old when that happened. Now I stand in front of the board representing Boy Scouts of America, ¨Congratulations, you are officially an Eagle Scout.¨ It hits me all the sudden like a wave hitting a sea wall, an 11 year journey just ended and it’s time to see the outcome.

Lines such as “I never saw so many birds’ my friend exclaimed,” and “Later, as Lot’s wife must have done.” These lines are seen as an odd literary choice to me, but perhaps they serve to add to the theme of normality that balances with the theme of wonder portrayed in the poem. The theme of wonder, however, is expertly weaved into the narrative by the author’s abundant use of

Imagery is addressed in different ways throughout the two poems in very detailed ways. This line from “Caged Bird,” “But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage, his

Because of the supposed similarities between humans and birds, birds are a useful tool for authors wishing to symbolize human emotions or thoughts. Mynott offers that birds are often “distinguished partly by the different human emotions they seem to be revealing” (Mynott 282). He references several examples of the use of human-specific traits in the description of birds, such as “kind,” “stern,” and “astonished” (282). It is not such a huge leap from the attribution of such human characteristics, to “anthropomorphic misdescription” (282). The birds in The Ant of the Self are said to be looking “as though they [had] placed bets” on who would lose Spurgeon’s and his father’s confrontation. While Spurgeon is taking a stand against his father by ordering him out of the car and onto the shoulder of the road, the birds’ curious glances are exposing Spurgeon’s own thoughts. The birds, a symbol for Spurgeon, wonder whether he or his father will “go down in flames” (Packer 95). The caged birds, which are so capable of human expressions, are expressing Spurgeon’s thoughts. ZZ Packer endows the birds with a look of human quizzicality, having them glance from the nervous Spurgeon to his angered father. Spurgeon wonders whether he or his father will win, and the birds, as his symbol, express this.

Through diction, figurative language and imagery, and syntax, William Blake conveys an intense and curious tone, revealing the doubt of whether or not human power was given by a higher being. The author, William Blake, uses connotation to make his audience understand what the true subject of the poem that he refers to is. For example, the word, “tyger,” in this poem is not specifying an actual tiger, but is used to represent humans. When Blake says, “thy fearful symmetry,” he is giving the tyger the characteristics of strength and power. Humans, as well, are strong and have the potential to create a big impact on the world, just as tigers do in the wild. Overall, the main focus of this poem is who the creator of the tyger is. This is supported with “And what shoulder, & what art/ Could twist the sinews of thy heart” and “On what wings dare he aspire.”

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I interpreted the final lines of the poem as classical allusions to Greek mythology, as “And like a thunderbolt he falls” (6) sounded like Zeus’ most iconic weapon and “He watches from his mountain walls” (5) to the infamous Mount Olympus. Also in line 5 I realized that we do not know what is underneath the eagle, for it appears that he can see and control everything. I interpreted the second line, “Close to the sun” (2) as one alluding to the heavens. Rather than an eagle’s talons, I initially viewed the first line “He clasps the crag with crooked hands” (1) as a character like Aron Ralston dangling from the edge of a precipice. I’m not sure if Tennyson means to suggest something about his opinion on the natural order of beings, but between the strength of the eagle and weakness of man I think he just might. Tennyson utilizes lines like, “The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls” (4) to paint a picture of the eagle’s fierceness merely after “he stands” (3)- demonstrating an element of absolute, if not divine,

Analysis #1 1st Paragraph- Introduction “The Bird Came Down” by Emily Dickinson is a short poem. The type of meter used in this poem is a trimeter. The type of feet used is poem is iamb. The stanzas is quatrain.

Tennyson was inspired to write “The Eagle” when he went to the mountain. Even though “The Eagle” was a short poem, it had a lot of imagery. “He clasps the crag with crooked hands” a good use of imagery in this poem. It is also a metaphor because Tennyson wrote it as if the eagle had hands like a human. It explained about how the eagle lives in its natural habitat. “The Eagle” had a rhyme scheme of (a, a, a) which is a triple rhyme, where the stanzas have three lines and they all rhyme. The poem also contains alliteration and simile. “And like a thunderbolt he falls” is a simile that was used that could be used to describe the eagle falling. In all cases we would think Tennyson meant the eagle was falling fast like a thunderbolt but he wasn 't. “Although the unwary reader might associate the swift, downward flight of the eagle with a lightning bolt, Tennyson does not use this term (Jackson 26).” He was wording it as “the sound of the rock landing a thunderbolt (Jackson 26).” The poem uses alliteration such as “He

he poem “Tamer and Hawk” by Thom Gunn is one of the famous poems. The poem deals with two characters – the poet and his lover – where the poet uses the term Hawk for himself and Tamer for his lover. The poem is essentially a declaration of the poet’s love for his lover, admitting his fears of losing his lover, while proclaiming that he is willing to go to lengths just so he could keep his lover forever.

Tennyson has used an image of an eagle to give the reader an image of

The short story "The Birds" was written by Daphne du Maurrier and was filmed and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It has a very interesting and suspenseful plot. The short story was well written and the film was well played, both are very similar. Although, they have a few differences the film and short story have the same mood and theme. Would the differences in the film and the short story affect the suspenseful and frightening plot?Alfred Hitchcock did an outstanding job filming the movie matching it with the short story. In both the short story and film flocks and flocks of gulls, robins, and sparrows join each other.

The use of imagery throughout the poem allows the author to display her perspective on the simplicity of nature. When she describes nature, she often uses small animals, such as a squirrel and a bird called a bobolink, as examples. She then builds on those images with things such as the sea and thunder to add to the effect she created in her poem. Taken by themselves, these creatures and things are simple. However, because she uses all of them together in sequence to describe one concept, the image grows more complex. It creates a sense of contrast that complicates the image, giving it more substance and allowing it to take on a more complete form. These contrasts are all throughout the poem.