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Vsuresh Posted 12 years ago
Poetry appreciation
Hi
Please tell me how this explanation sounds.
A Plane and The Eagle
O'er tempest, soars the eagle
with wings stretching
towards the smiling sun.
Gliding-nature's
handiwork.
Up the sky,a figure
with outstretched wings
battling the turbulent wind
and frowning sun.
The words “O’ver tempest soars the eagle…” tell that the poet compares the aeroplane to an eagle. He probably means the aeroplane takes off with a great speed to overcome the air pressure coming from the opposite direction.
He personifies the sun. He calls it “the smiling sun” .Probably he refers to the morning sun whose light and heat is most welcome to the land which has just awoken from the sleep.
In the second sun, the poet calls the sun “…the frowning sun” maybe because the sun is quite hot now, which we usually associate to an angry face.
Please tell me how this explanation sounds.
A Plane and The Eagle
O'er tempest, soars the eagle
with wings stretching
towards the smiling sun.
Gliding-nature's
handiwork.
Up the sky,a figure
with outstretched wings
battling the turbulent wind
and frowning sun.
The words “O’ver tempest soars the eagle…” tell that the poet compares the aeroplane to an eagle. He probably means the aeroplane takes off with a great speed to overcome the air pressure coming from the opposite direction.
He personifies the sun. He calls it “the smiling sun” .Probably he refers to the morning sun whose light and heat is most welcome to the land which has just awoken from the sleep.
In the second sun, the poet calls the sun “…the frowning sun” maybe because the sun is quite hot now, which we usually associate to an angry face.
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I cannot say those interpretations are wrong, Suresh, but I don't think they are germane to what the poet intends, for instance by his contrasting the two faces of the sun. By the way, where is the plane in the poem?
- I cannot say those interpretations are wrong, Suresh, but I don't think they are germane to what the poet intends, for instance by his contrasting the two faces of the sun.
- By the way, where is the plane in the poem?
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I cannot say those interpretations are wrong, Suresh, but I don't think they are germane to what the poet intends, for instance by his contrasting the two faces of the sun. By the way, where is the plane in the poem?
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Thank you for your comments,sir.
Actually I have posted only the first two stanzas of the poem here.
And, as for the plane, the title is A Plane and the Eagle, and in almost every stanza the poet compares the plane and the eagle.
Here is another:
Actually I have posted only the first two stanzas of the poem here.
And, as for the plane, the title is A Plane and the Eagle, and in almost every stanza the poet compares the plane and the eagle.
Here is another:
This man-made
handiwork, dismember's
under a stormy wind.
For paid price-loss
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vsureshThis man-made handiwork, dismember's under a stormy wind. For paid price-loss of lives.This talks only about a plane.
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