Please analyze "Eagle Poem" by Joy Harjo.

The central metaphor in the poem is one that suggests
language is a circle of motion or that meaning is communicated, articulated or otherwise
manifested in circles of motion.

While engaging in prayer,
the individual realizes that the "voice that is you" is not contained in the self, but
is un-contained and exists in the world being witnessed and
experienced.

The world, perhaps especially the "natural
world," represents a verity or truth that one begins to see when "you open your whole
self": 

And know there is
more

That you can’t see,
can’t hear;

Can’t know except in
moments

Steadily growing, and in
languages

That aren’t always sound but
other

Circles of motion.

These
circles of motion are exemplified by the eagle circling in the
sky.

Like
eagle that Sunday morning

Over Salt River. Circled in blue
sky

In wind, swept our hearts
clean

With sacred
wings.

Later in
the poem, life is presented as another example of a circle of motion. These circles of
motion are both an expression of meaning and, we might say, the content of that meaning.
The eagle becomes finally a symbol of the ways that we experience meaning. The poem
suggests that the eagle rounds out the morning "inside us" and so is a link in the
circle of meaning-individual-natural world. 

To
see the poem as following a single conceit (extended metaphor), we might read the poem
as a map of the "circle of motion" wherein an individual looks outward to find a
spiritual or metaphysical truth (lines 1-9), recognizes the physicality of that truth as
it exists in the natural world (lines 10-21), and finally internalizes the sense that
meaning or truth is an expansive and ultimately connective element of existence itself
(lines 22-26). 

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Breathe in, knowing we are made
of

All
this.