What kind of poem reading does the following represent?

The eagle perches high on a cliff overlooking the ocean. He watches intently and then swoops down on his prey.

literal reading

symbolic reading

figurative reading

analytical reading

The kind of poem reading that the lines above represent is literal reading. There are no figures of speech here, such as metaphors, personifications, etc. which is why it's not a symbolic, figurative, or analytical reading. There is nothing to analyze here - the lines just tell the story of an eagle searching for its prey - it can't get any more literal than that.