Poem+number+328

My analysis of Emily Dickinson's poem (number 328) //A bird came down the walk// is as follows:

Stanza 1- A bird is making its way down the sidewalk when the narrator spots it. The bird finds a worm thats alive and eats it raw. Stanza 2- the bird then drinks the drplets of morning dew off the blades of grass. Then, like in a civil community, the bird moves of the the way of the beatle passing by out of shear politeness. Stanza 3- then the bird turns into a hunting mode and realizes that it is still hungry and wants more food. His eyes, described by Dickinson as beads, looked around rapidly and desperately searching for some food to eat. He turns his head and moves his eyes peering in every which direction he could view. Stanza 4- Seeing the anxious bird, the narrator cautiously approached the bird and gave it a crumb of food to help him out. The bird then relazed and opened its windd feathers. And he "rowed him softer home" which means he heads home in a more relaxed and content way. Stanza 5- This stanza describes the way the bird flies home and the interesting details of the way it flies. In the previous stanza it says that the bird "rowed home" and then in this stanza the "oars" it refers to are the bird's wings. The birds cut through the sky just as rowing oars cut through the ocean. And the bird flies home rountinely and flawlessly just as other creatures do in their own habitats.

This is a very simple story with a cute, easy-to-understand, comparison at the end. 1204082570

I did not understand this poem that well. "A bird came down the walk," was about fear, the will to survive, and how the food chain affects the way we live. The bird in this story was cruel to the worm because it was its prey, but then once the bird comes in contact with the reader and the beetle it shyed away from them. When the reader corners the bird it flies away more gently, "Than Oars divide the Ocean....Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon Leap, plashless as they swim." This is a great metaphor describing flight.

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This poem has a nice rhyme pattern. It is an ABCB pattern and she rhymes it very well. The rhymes seem to roll right off the tongue. The poem is about a bird and his day. First it talks about how the bird eats his meal and what it was. The bird was eating and angleworm. Then the bird came down for a drink. It drank some dew off the grass. Then the poem talks about the bird and how he was acting when he was on the ground. The bird looked around nervously. I know this because of the line that says.” He glanced with rapid eyes.” This means he was looking around quickly and nervously. It then talks about the speaker of the poem feeding the bird. The bird then goes and swims away. 1205459428