Eagle
Soaring high above the hills, What a view he must have, How wonderfully small the world must feel. I wonder what it would be like to be an Eagle.
Hazel McKay's "Eagle" is a short, quiet poem about imagining life from a higher place. The speaker watches, or pictures, an eagle soaring above the hills and thinks about the view it must have. Nothing dramatic happens. The poem is really a moment of daydreaming.
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