I will be discussing the ways in which the poets use animals symbolically by using poetic devices. The three poems that I have chosen are “The Tyger” by William Blake, “The Eagle” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Lastly, Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Alfred Lord Tennyson has used an image of an eagle to give the reader an image of a man standing on a cliff top waiting for his world to fall around him. He is in a desolate area; there is no society near him “ringed with the azure world. He stands”. He watches the sea pass lower than him his world collapses beneath him n he falls.
“And like a thunderbolt he falls”
The sun has symbolized God. And his closeness to the eagle. In this poem, the writer has used alliteration “lonely lands” when he wishes to emphasis the nature, its surroundings and beauty’s. Followed by short verses. He uses metaphors and long lines to show how strong the bird appears to be. In addition, the eagle waits and watches alone from the mountain highs to catch his pray. in this poem there is a very intellectual skill, which is symbolizing the eagle as the God by saying that everything on the plant is beneath him first of all that is because nothing is possible to be near the sun because is very high and also hot. However, the poem is trying to tell us that the eagle is standing “close to the sun in lonely lands” and that the enormous sea is beneath him. These are the ways that the poet has used the eagle symbolically and to illustrate his strength and power standing high in the sky.
