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A Comparison essay

All animals live life by striving for survival. They live through the unbearable heat, to the chilling cold. However, no matter how tough situations get, they always find a way to pass the obstacle. Life is too precious to waste. One way of an animal’s life is to live off of other species. By being strong, and having a technique, they will survive. As the years go by, an animal ages too, in which then their strength and perseverance fade away, but their faith and hope live on. Animals never give up, until they know it is all over.

The idea of animals never giving up until they know it’s over is elaborated through two poems. The poem “ The Dying Eagle” by E. J. Pratt is a distinct example of an animal knowing when its time is over. The poet describes how an eagle lives its life. Although the eagle is aging physically, it still strives for that pride to reign over its kingdom. It has an encounter with a “foreign” invader. Unsure of what it is, the invader gets disappears, and the eagle is unable to determine what it was. The eagle then, returns to the life it lived, admiring over its empire of emptiness. Similarly, in the poem “ The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop, an animal lives life in the