In the short poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Eagle," he uses a series of figurative language. Normally eagles would have claws, but Tennyson used human hands to create personification. The first line states, "He clasps the crag with crooked hands" (Tennyson 1). The words clasps, crag, and crooked all use the same "C" sound creating an alliteration. In the next line, the eagle is close to the sun, so he must be really high up in the mountains. The eagle is also in "lonely lands" (Tennyson 2) which is also an alliteration as lonely and lands both begin with the letter "L." The last line of the stanza presents an allusion between the sky and the eagle. The sky is described as "the azure world" (Tennyson 3) that circles the