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The end rhymes add to the lyrical sense of the poem and the soothing, soaring nature of the eagle. This poem is one of Lord Tennyson's shortest pieces of literature. It is composed of two stanzas, three lines each. Contrary to the length, the poem is full of deeper meaning and figurative language.
The proverbial image of the wounded eagle was to become a common conceit in English poetry of the 17th century and after. Just as Aeschylus described his image as coming from Libya, James Howell identifies the 2nd century writer Lucian as his source in a commendatory poem on the work of Giles Fletcher: England, like Lucian's eagle with an arrow
Freya Stark alludes to the poem in the title of "A Peak in Darien" (London, 1976). Vladimir Nabokov refers to the poem in his novel Pale Fire when the fictional poet John Shade mentions a newspaper headline that attributes a recent Boston Red Sox victory to "Chapman's Homer" (i.e. to a home run by a player named Chapman).
The story was told by William Caxton of a weasel and an eagle [3] while Gilles Corrozet tells the story of an ant and an eagle in his emblem book. [ 4 ] In ancient times the story became the basis for an ironical Greek proverb, 'the dung beetle serving as midwife to the eagle' (ὁ κάνθαρος αετòν μαιεύεται), taken from a ...
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The "beasts of battle" motif, often found in Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, is here modified to include not only the standard eagle, raven, and wolf, but also a "sad-faced man" (sumne drēorighlēor, l. 83). It has been suggested that this is the poem's protagonist. [17]
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