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A Comparison of Tennyson's "The Eagle" and McCaig's "The Sparrow" The immediate thing that strikes me, when comparing Tennyson's "eagle" and McCaig's "sparrow", is the great contrast in length between the two poems. In just two verses, Tennyson manages to convey the pure majesty of the eagle in its natural habitat, following the instinct that has driven it to hunt its prey like countless generations before. He very much admired the style of writing used by the Italian poets of his generation. He employed this style, known as Terza Rima, which, in Italian, means three rhymes. McCaig, however, has used a very ordinary style of writing and four times the amount of words to evoke an image of the common but dignified sparrow. The inspiration for Tennyson's poem came from his viewing, at first hand, an eagle whilst travelling through America. His poem shows a keen sense of observation and he must have...

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