Write a critique of Alfred Tennyson’s Poem “The Eagle,” explaining the semiotics of the symbolism in the poem and decoding the signs by using the methodology developed by structuralism, an approach of reading which has been enunciated by Ferdinand De Saussure. In writing your critique, highlight the relationship between the signifier and the ssignified in uncovering the underlying meaning of the poem
The Eagle
BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring’d with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
