In the first two stanzas it is like the eagle is perched and waiting, the eagle seems to have kinetic energy when he was getting ready to pounce on something.The eagle is using his energy to wrap his claws around the mountain cliff tightly because the winds at this level are powerful, they are causing the sea to wrinkle, so the reader knows that the eagle needs a great amount of energy to hold on. In the last two stanzas he is taking action by clasping onto the rocks to maybe catch what could be a fish or something he is hunting for in the water. In line 6 “and like a thunderbolt he falls” thunderbolts are caused by an enormous amount of energy that builds, as the eagle is falling from the sky to catch what he spots in the sea, the amount
