Cross-disciplinarity is more and more important because of the wide specialization demanded by job markets. Separate disciplines are demanded with increasing urgency to integrate their concepts and methods in teaching and research. Only through the intersection of different disciplines can progress and innovation be achieved in specific knowledge areas. It is said that much leading science nowadays progresses not by placing one brick upon the other within a single discipline, but by solving complex problems that cut across many disciplines. Language teaching has to conform to what today’s society demands from professional occupations: a cross-disciplinary role with a result-oriented focus. Cognitive science can provide an adequate model for cross-disciplinary investigation because it integrates linguistic, psychological, philosophical, neurological, computer science, anthropological and historical contributions. Within the cognitive paradigm, a linguistic term does not exclusively exist because of its relations with others but also of culture-based and conventionalized background knowledge. We will use and rely on principles and models of cognitive linguistics to apply and handle language teaching in cross-disciplinary contexts.

Lord Alfred Tennyson’s poem The Eagle is a prominent poem about perpetuity, spirit, and liberation. It is a speculative short poem that might sanction thoughtful readers to profoundly contemplate the several aspects of the universe particularly the natural elements and the symbolical elements. The poem The Eagle is fabricated in reality, though it has to be repositioned outside reality to provide a portrait of life in which its hero is an eagle. The paper intends analytically to evaluate the depth of some significant themes of The Eagle such as probing nature, eternity, essence, and authorization in which the researcher employs the descriptive-critical-analytical scheme. The paper starts with a brief introduction about the poet, to be followed by the main part of the study, which is the analysis of the poem The Eagle: A Fragment. Then it moves to the section of the discussion. The task ends with a concise conclusion.