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Analyzing The Poem 'He Clasps The Crooked Hands'
The sounds that the author gives the reader in the first line of the first stanza is when the author says “He clasps the crag with crooked hands.” This could be an example of sound due to his crooked hands hanging onto the mountain and scratching up against it. Another example from the text would be when the author says “Ring’d with the azure world , he stands.” This is an example from the text because everything around the eagle is making noise. Even the eagle is making noise with his “crooked hands,” against the mountains. The sounds that the author gives the reader in the first line of the second is when the author says “The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls,” this is an example of sound because the sea is making noises when

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