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Оглавление| Pre-reading | |
| 1. | We have quite a number of indigenous eagles in Africa. With what do you associate an eagle, other than keen eyesight (eagle-eyed)? |
| During reading | |
| 2. | Why are the eagle’s feet described as “crooked hands”? What literary device is being used? |
The eagle
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
azure – bright blue like the sky on a clear day
crag – mountain top
thunderbolt – flash of lightning
| Post-reading | |
| 3. | How does the rhyme scheme of the poem affect the way we imagine the eagle? |
| 4. | Why are the places where the eagle lives described as “lonely lands”? |
| 5. | The writer describes the sea as “wrinkled”. Why does he use such an unusual metaphor for the sea? |
| 6. | Look at the last line. |
| a) | Punctuation, line divisions and capitalised words are some ways of signalling how a poem should be read. The last line begins with “And”, and the line before ends with a comma, marking a pause. How does this invite us to say the line and imagine the dramatic dive of the eagle onto its prey? |
| b) | The king of the Roman gods threw thunderbolts at wrongdoers to punish or destroy them. How well does the image of the eagle as “like a thunderbolt” fit with its image in the rest of the poem? |
| c) | What does the last stanza suggest about the eagle’s effectiveness as a bird of prey? How successful a hunter do you think he is? |
| 7. | Which image in the poem do you think is the most effective one? Explain your choice. |
