The Eagle

Michael Kadish
8/22/95
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1) The expressions, "crooked hands," "close to the sun," "ringed with the azure world," "wrinkled," "crawls," and "like a thunderbolt" all are peculiarly effective by showing how graceful the eagle is with the world around it.

2) In addition to him standing in one stanza and falling in another, other contrasts may be found in the poem. One such contrast uses the description "crooked hands" in the first stanza and "wrinkled" in the second. Another contrast is found in the second line of both stanzas, where in one the local surroundings are described as "lonely lands" and in the other as "mountain walls."