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Know the Poet!
Alfred Tennyson (1809 – 1892) was an English poet.
He was the Poet Laureate during the reign of Queen
Victoria. Alfred Lord Tennyson is an influential poet
of Romanticism.
His poetry is more than two hundred years old but
even popular today.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Eagle
Glossary
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.
Clasps – hold tightly with
hands
Crag – a high, steep rough
mass of rock
Crooked - curved, bent
Azure – Sky blue
Wrinkled - lines or folds
Crawls – moves slowly
Thunderbolt - a flash of
lightning with a simultaneous
crash of thunder.
Glossary
Clasps – hold tightly with hands
Crag – a high, steep rough mass of
rock
Crooked - curved, bent
Azure – Sky blue
Wrinkled - lines or folds
Crawls – moves slowly
Thunderbolt - a flash of lightning
with a simultaneous crash of
thunder.
Summary
‘The Eagle’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson is a short two stanza poem that speaks on the power and solitude of
a lone eagle on a rocky cliff.
‘The Eagle’ is a powerful poem that captures the majesty and strength of the majestic bird, inspiring us to
reach for the heights of their own potential.
The poem begins with the speaker describing how a solitary eagle is standing on the top of a craggy cliff.
From where he is perched, with his “crooked hands” gripping the rocks, he can survey the whole “azure
world” around and below him.
Tennyson’s eagle is in a real place of power and as soon as he is ready to, and not a moment sooner, he
dives. In the final line, he makes his surprise move, moving down toward the water in search of prey.
Literary devices
Literary devices are ways of
taking writing beyond its
straightforward, literal
meaning. In that sense, they
are techniques for helping
guide the reader in how to
read the piece.
Literary Devices
1. Rhyming Words
The same ending sound words are called
the rhyming words.
The Eagle
BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
In another words, it is a repetition of
similar sounds.
Honey – Money – Funny – Sunny
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.
Literary Devices
2. Alliteration
Alliteration is the repetition of initial sounds of nearby
words in a phrase, often used as a literary device.
An example is "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers"
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.
Literary Devices
3. Personification
Personification is a figure of speech in which an
idea or thing is given human attributes and/or
feelings or is spoken of as if it were human.
The Eagle
BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Example:
1. Lightning danced across the sky.
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.
2. My house is a friend who protects me.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Literary Devices
4. Hyperbole
a way of speaking or writing that makes
someone or something sound bigger, better,
more, etc. than they actually are.
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.
5. Imagery
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.
1. Revise the class-work
2. Tomorrow, We will be doing simile and metaphors of the
poem.
Real time- BOARD WORK