The poem I chose was "The Eagle" by Lord Alfred Tennyson.
             Lord Alfred Tennyson was an English poet, one of the great representative figures of the Victorian Age. Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, on August 6, 1809. His writing encompasses many poetic styles and includes some of the finest relaxing poetry in the language. Tennyson went to the University of Cambridge.
             "The Eagle" that Tennyson wrote in 1851.
             He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
             Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
             The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
             This poem is classified as a lyric poem. The type of lyric poetry is ode, because of the poem expressing celebration addressed to a special object, which is the eagle. Within the iambic rhythm and the six tetrametric lines the viewpoint gives us details on the eagle and his 360 degree view of the horizon. A simple dialectic of status in the first stanza and motion in the second stanza concentrated on the last words of each stanza. This poem has a rhyme scheme of AAA BBB. To go together with this dialect, there are two tetrametric triplets.
             Imagery is in every line of this poem. In line 1 you visualize the eagle's claws dug into the crag, or Mountain. In line two he can see an eagle a way in the sun. In line 3 says "azure world", which means blue world he picture an eagle flying solo over the oceans. In line 4 I can visualize and hear the waves beneath the eagle. In line 5 I picture an eagle all alone on top of the mountain. And in the last line I visualize an eagle soaring down.
             There was no diction in this poem. There is figurative language in this poem. The eagle symbolizes a man. The crooked hands and wrinkled seas mean it's an old man. Watches from from his mountain walls, like protection of your territory. L
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