E J Pratt s the dying eagle?

E.J. Pratt's _The Dying Eagle_ is a poem describing the last minutes of an eagle's life as it soars through the air. The eponymous protagonist of the poem flies above its fellow birds while struggling under the effects of old age and the cold harshness of winter that threatens the creature even as it fights the natural decay of his physical faculties he finds the courage and motivation it needs from it's innate sense of strength and its life memories thus, transcending mortality in the grand scope of life and becoming something more.