Discuss the Summary of the poem the dying eagle?

Summary:

The eagle king has lost its eyesight almost. It keeps it head in between its body with tiredness. Its wings are dull and dirtier and hang below its tail. It is old but is not the age that has made him to sit like a raven that drenched in the rain. It is not the night time too. It is an hour before sunset.

An iron has entered into his soul which destitute his pride and territory on that day. Till that afternoon this crag was his throne. From the forests to the boundless sky, the entire space was like his empire. He has won all his enemies. The eagles that are in the glaciers or them mapping the coastal areas are his descents. Even before they fledge the Eagle king had tumbled them on the rocks from their nests.

In this morning the eyes of this monarch have been captured by the silver flash of a mighty bird that flew in between the two peaks of the mountain ranges. This sight has titillated this Eagle King. Even his hairs in the neck were bustled. The mighty bird’s feet were as strong as digging clefts in the granite. The Eagle King couldn’t recognise whether it is a Partridge or a Heron or a Falcon or even an Eagle.

The mighty bird flew in a rapid speed as if catapulted from a ledge and made a spiral. It even reached the orbits without any rising and falling waves. It also reaches the positions from where it could survey the other birds. There is no such bird it could reach the heaven and the earth. The Eagle King even thinks of pterodactyls which were existed before the vulture and could kill its carrion even in the Andes.

The shadow of the strange invader seems like a bat upon the roofs of the world. It also passes the moraines and vitriol; is it a dragon. It also has the head, body, wings and even the taut. The two whirling eyes the mighty bird like the meridian bright has not shuttered. The Eagle King hasn’t known about this strange bird before.

It is his enemy whom he can’t grApple over. The shoulders at the back of this strange bird puzzled the Eagle King a lot. Its sound was like a thunder. His claws were like lightening. The speed of the strange bird is double of the Eagle King. The anger and unconcern manner of this supercilious bird that flew over the dominion of the Eagle King disturbed him most. This ancient Suzerain made its spy in the territory with the impudent face and disappeared.

The Eagle King has found himself weak by the evening. His shoulders are untidy and his claws become nerveless. He thinks that dusk come an hour before the sunset to haunt his eyes. He also thinks that the flock that has chased away by him will come back again and to thread in the crimson archipelagos. There will find him deaf by the wings of that mighty bird. They will brood over the lost emperor of the peaks the Eagle King.

Analysis:

This is an allegorical poem. It deals with the descending tradition. The poet has taken the Eagle and an Aeroplane to distinguish between Tradition and Modernism.

The poem can be taken in two ways. In the literal meaning it is the juxtaposition of emotions of a bird after looking at an aeroplane. The poet beautifully pictures the emotions arouse in the mind of the bird after seeing the aeroplane.

In allegorical, the poem tries to capture the fading of the tradition with the advent of modernism. The Eagle King rules his territory without any opponent. He never allowed his rivals to win over him. He tumbled them. But this strange bird was a big puzzle to him. In the same way the poet on behalf of the Traditionalism worries about the modernism which is fascinating.

The Eagle King worries that the ‘mighty bird’ would be pterodactyl. He couldn’t recognise what kind of a bird is it. Likely, modernism can’t be predicted.

The eyes of the mighty bird were unshuttered. It is unconcern about anything. It has an arrogant look. In the same way Modernism is not shuttered and it doesn’t bother about the other trends and grows up in its own way.

The Eagle King worries that his chased away descents will come back and pity for him of his deafness. Modernism can also make the Traditionalism diminishing.