The Dalliance of the Eagles

The Dalliance of the Eagles, by Walt Whitman, he expresses how two eagles force his senses and imagination to a new pitch, where action, space, and time are all magnified to an intensity to the point of revelation. We are delivered to the world of nature and the world of art at once. For Whitman, it is love that the narrator metaphorically ascribes to these creatures of flight and grace “our love” because this is amorous dalliance and pursuit to us, but what to them? Surely, we will never know. They "skirt" the human road, and do not walk it as we do. Seen rightly and with human eyes, this is nothing but a revelation of what comes to us from existence and draws us to love, and love passionately.