rikes down, without a sound, and completely undetected. The eagle is so fast and noiseless that you may only see it strike out of the corner of your eye, witch is exactly how a thunderbolt strikes. This act is silent but deadly. I can visualize so well the action that Robert Browning is describing in the first line. The powerful eagle dives down to the water, and grabs a fish with its deadly talons. Holding the prey in its claws by the throat, leaving it so helpless and weak. He compares the eagle’s claws to “crooked hands”, or strange looking hands. An eagle’s claws are very deadly, but odd looking. An eagle, like any other animal is part of nature. By looking at the eagle in the poem, you in turn are looking at nature. Everything that the eagle does is part of nature. The way he strikes, the way he over sees everything. I look at the eagle in the poem as a representation of nature. I don’t know for sure, but Robert Browning implies that nature is infact the Supreme Being. The eagle is just a way of interpreting that. By looking at nature through the acts of an animal, you can get a clearer picture of how nature works. Nature works in mysterious ways, it can be beautiful one minute, then violent the next minute. After studying literature, this piece in particular, I have learned that sometimes by saying very little, the message can be far greater then it seems. Using certain words in conduction with each other can somehow twist the meaning of the words. I have always had a very hard time understanding poetry. Now I find myself understanding more about the poems that I read. I have a better knowledge of the poem The Eagle after this study of poetry. ...
