The theme is important to poetry. Not only music but also theme is linked to poetry since its birth. Usually, great verses have more than one theme. these days different methods of literary analysis are on theater. The various approaches are used to explain the rich themes of The Eagle in a memory of Hallam and in glorification of Britain’s colonial extension and in compliment of nature.
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) embraces great repute as a musician of letters. It is well known that Tennyson’s poems are imbued with musical and formal beauty to the extent that people claim reading of Tennyson’s poems will naturally bestow gifts of poetry on the readers. Poetry has been related to music since its birth. If the poetry is stripped of music. it might then fall into the pool of prose. “The Eagle” is a poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson in 1851 when he was Poet Laureate of Great Britain. “The Eagle” is a short poem, only six lines longs, with rhyming triplets.
The poem was written to Tennyson’s great friend Arthur Henry Hallam and the image of the eagle can be seen as a metaphor, chiefly in the last line, when one understands that “falls” can mean both the action of the eagle swooping down from the sky, or an early death that comes “such as a thunderbolt.” Hallam and Tennyson had been close friends at Cambridge, and Tennyson was deeply moved by Hallam’s death from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1833 at the age of 22. Theme-identification of the poem The Eagle Music is, as is known to all, indispensable to any poem.
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We all know that images are of great importance in poem writing, without which the poems were written will sound unnatural or we can say they lose poetical beauty. Concerning theme, as I have mentioned in the last part, it is extremely important for any poem must have at least one theme (here the theme is closely related to significance). If deprived of theme, any kind of literature becomes unnatural and insignificant.
To make comment son poems is analogous to the appraisal of any piece of work of art. First of all, we should question the purpose of the poem. While reading The Eagle, especially when I try to identify the theme, I feel hesitant to believe what those scholars talk about. Nearly all of them hold the same opinion that this poem is meant to lament Hallam’s death. They believe that the eagle reminds our poet Tennyson of his lifelong friend, which inspires him to make such an analogy between the brave eagle and Hallam.
I do not want to comment on other scholar’s viewpoints nor speak lowly of their efforts. In fact, I to some extent agree with them, for Hallam is really important to Tennyson and Tennyson has written a lot of things to lament his untimely death. I just feel we need to voice our own opinions and I also hope that more and more people will take pains in interpreting this poem.
