"The Eagle" by Tennyson, Lord Alfred - Explication
Date Submitted: 11/15/2003 07:44:55
Note:
My professor didn't agree with my explication, but he did comment that it was "well written, imaginitive, and nicely argued." The possibility was well explained. What lowered my score were spelling and grammatical errors, so please double check your work.
Essay:
When first reading this poem one could easily assume that this poem is about an eagle and nothing else (Tennyson). However, after further analysis, one finds that there is more to this than
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Students. Eds. Sara Constantakis, Elizabeth A. Cranston. Vol. 11. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 30.
"he." Merriam-Webster Collegiate.com. 2004 <http://www.merriam-webstercollegiate.com/cgi-bin/collegiate?va=He&x=31&y=7> (15 September 2004)
"talon." Merriam-Webster Collegiate.com. 2004 <http://www.merriam-webstercollegiate.com/cgi-bin/collegiate?va=talons> (15 September 2004)
Tennyson, Lord Alfred. "The Eagle." Literature and the Writing Process. Elizabeth McMahan, Susan X Day, and Robert Funk. 7th ed. Upper Saddle, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005. 489.
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