Question

identify 3 poetic devices in poem "The Eagle" by lord alfred tennyson with *examples*​

Answer 1

Answer:

The poet uses alliteration, personification, and a simile to enhance the reader's experience of watching the bird. A very short poem but a great example of literary devices—this is Tennyson's “The Eagle.” Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands.

Example 1

Also in this poem personification is used as the poet refers to the eagle as ''he'' and he has ''hands'' which an eagle wouldn't have. In this poem alliteration is used for example ''he clasps the crag with crooked hands'' and ''lonely lands

Example 2

The last line of the poem employs a simile to describe the way the eagle dives to the ocean below: The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.