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The eagle of the sea! O, better that her shattered hulk. Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every thread-bare sail, And give her to the god of storms,— The lightning and the gale! Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
The Eagle of the Sea is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Frank Lloyd, starring Florence Vidor and featuring Boris Karloff in an uncredited role. Incomplete prints of the film exist.
White-bellied sea eagles are commonly found along sea coasts, large rivers, lakes and reservoirs, and even on offshore islands. These eagles have also been spotted inland, far away from water bodies. Their typical range includes southwestern and eastern India, southeast Asia, south China and Australia. 12
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‘The Eagle’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson is a short two stanzapoem that speaks on the power and solitude of a lone eagle on a rocky cliff. The poem begins with the speakerdescribing 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” a...
‘The Eagle’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson is a two stanza poem that is separated out into two sets of three lines, known as tercets. These tercets follow a very simple rhyme scheme that conforms to a pattern of AAA BBB. The poem also makes use of the metrical pattern of iambic tetrameter. This means that each line contains four sets of two beats, known a...
Tennyson uses a number of poetic techniques within ‘The Eagle’. These include alliteration, caesura, and personification. The latter is perhaps the easiest to spot. It occurs when a poet imbues a non-human creature or object with human characteristics. In this case, the eagle is described as having “hands”. It is also referred to as “he” rather tha...
Stanza One
This piece begins with a description of a creature, only labeled with the pronoun “He”. The speaker is assuming that a reader will understand who this “He” is, and if one reads the title of the poem it’s clear. Tennyson’s speaker is describing an eagle, who is at the moment the poem starts up on a “crag,” meaning a rugged, exposed cliff face. This is somewhere human beings couldn’t, or would have trouble, reaching. There is something transcendent about this opening scene. It is beyond that wh...
Stanza Two
In the second stanza, the speaker gives the reader a few more details about the eagle’s surroundings. The rocky cliff on which the creature is perched is, as already made clear, very steep. Tennyson adds that it is also jutting out over the sea. The eagle is so high up, the sea appears to be covered in wrinkles. They represent the various shapes of the waves and might make one consider how age and time play into this description. In the next line, the eagle’s position of power on the rocks is...
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The eagle of the sea! O, better that her shattered hulk. Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every thread-bare sail, And give her to the god of storms,— The lightning and the gale!
Jun 15, 2009 · This is the story of the oldest warship afloat in the world, the venerable frigate USS Constitution, the cornerstone of the nascent American navy created by act of Congress in 1794.
- Col. David Col. Fitz-Enz
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. More Poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
