Short Essay Birds
Linnette Chavez
AP Literature, Per 3
27 January 2015
Types of Meaning After analyzing “The Eagle” by Alfred Lord Tennyson and “Snowy Egret” by Bruce Weigl, both poets had similar subjects in their poems. They both employ multidimensional language but, they took a different approach to the topic. The scenario of the poems revolve around a bird doing a sort of event. In “The Eagle” by Alfred Lord Tennyson, the bird in the poem is an eagle. The eagle represents power, courage, and strength. At first glance, the poet is talking about an eagle who is on a mountain where he descends from his nest to the sky and then the eagle falls to the ground to capture his prey. We get this image by the word choice the poet uses like “crooked hands”, “he stands”, “mountain walls” and “he falls.” This is a scientific approach to the reader, but in a literary way a reader can imagine a man with power and a choice that he made causes his downfall into misfortune in the end. The words that help prove this theory is “he stands” and “he falls.”
The eagle is man who is a ruler, how I got that was that the eagle is the king of the skies so in retrospect the eagle is man and he caused great misfortune to himself which leads to his downfall. “The Eagle” by Alfred Lord Tennyson is a very short poem but a powerful poem with poetic sense of synthesizes such an experience. The sound of the poem is admiring the beauty of the eagle but also observing the eagle behavior in wildlife. Another thing, about the poem is that it rhymes with each word in the line. With just six lines, the right words, and different language behind every word there is a meaning to the poem which is to admire life itself with the beauty that’s outside your doorstep.
While the poem “Snowy Egret” by Bruce Weigl, talks about a egret which represents independent, self-reliant and wisdom the opposite of an eagle. The egret is more gracious while the eagle is more majestic in terms of their symbolism of bird. When
AP Literature, Per 3
27 January 2015
Types of Meaning After analyzing “The Eagle” by Alfred Lord Tennyson and “Snowy Egret” by Bruce Weigl, both poets had similar subjects in their poems. They both employ multidimensional language but, they took a different approach to the topic. The scenario of the poems revolve around a bird doing a sort of event. In “The Eagle” by Alfred Lord Tennyson, the bird in the poem is an eagle. The eagle represents power, courage, and strength. At first glance, the poet is talking about an eagle who is on a mountain where he descends from his nest to the sky and then the eagle falls to the ground to capture his prey. We get this image by the word choice the poet uses like “crooked hands”, “he stands”, “mountain walls” and “he falls.” This is a scientific approach to the reader, but in a literary way a reader can imagine a man with power and a choice that he made causes his downfall into misfortune in the end. The words that help prove this theory is “he stands” and “he falls.”
The eagle is man who is a ruler, how I got that was that the eagle is the king of the skies so in retrospect the eagle is man and he caused great misfortune to himself which leads to his downfall. “The Eagle” by Alfred Lord Tennyson is a very short poem but a powerful poem with poetic sense of synthesizes such an experience. The sound of the poem is admiring the beauty of the eagle but also observing the eagle behavior in wildlife. Another thing, about the poem is that it rhymes with each word in the line. With just six lines, the right words, and different language behind every word there is a meaning to the poem which is to admire life itself with the beauty that’s outside your doorstep.
While the poem “Snowy Egret” by Bruce Weigl, talks about a egret which represents independent, self-reliant and wisdom the opposite of an eagle. The egret is more gracious while the eagle is more majestic in terms of their symbolism of bird. When