The Eagle

Poets have always, in their metaphorical visions, had something of this perverse capacity to see things from a different point of view -- “negative capability” is the label of choice. Let me invoke one of Tennyson’s short, famous lines to give a sense of where I want to go with this idea -- not as though it were directly influenced by Darwin, but because it exemplifies an aesthetic power reasonably associated with Darwin’s writing. As Tennyson’s famous “Eagle” flies, “The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls.” Because the poem is so conveniently short, it is ubiquitously anthologized, but for the same reason it is easy to lose sight of what a stunning vision -- before the age of airplanes and moon walks -- this is. . . . . Page 128

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J.Garcia ^club

eagle...is my favorite being...
So many thanks, Dinesh

2 years ago.

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