The first line, He clasps the crag with crooked hands: We know "he" is an eagle. He is sitting upon a roughly surfaced rock. Crooked hands refers to the grip he takes upon the rock. It indictates the surface is not firm. Close to the sun in lonely lands, the second line implies that he is up on a mountain top close to the sun where there is no one. Ringed with the azure world, he stands, the third line noting the blue sky that surrounds him (the azure world). The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls. This line represents reinforces the idea as to how high the eagle sits. the roaring sea so far below appears only to be crawling slowly. He watches from his mountain walls, and like a thunderbolt he falls. The eagle looks at his surroundings, and then does not actually fall, but takes off from his place with speed.
This poem is about a place so serene that only eagles are able to reach.
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