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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 328.
A Bird came down the Walk
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
Comment 10 of 10, added on February 17th, 2008 at 6:44 PM.
if you read the poem, you notice that the tone of the poem is first, content, happiness. Then in the 3rd stanza it becomes more of a panic tone. And as the bird begins to fly away, the tone turns to calm and back to happiness. i think that emily is comparing this scene in nature to show us how this bird and humans are alike. For instance, when the bird is eating, its happy. This is the same when we humans are eating too. i mean no one eats in anger. Then when the bird is finished eating the bird becomes frantic because it feels as if its going to be attacked since its on the gound--unfamiliar territory--where it can not run away or defend itself as easily as in the air. Which leads to when the bird flies away and into the sky--familiar territory--the poem thus becomes calm again. Also, i think that in the last two lines of the 4th stanza and the first two lines of the 5th stanza, emily is comparing the air and the sky.
Ann from Vietnam
Comment 9 of 10, added on March 28th, 2007 at 10:39 AM.
The poem is very well written and it is an easy read but really hard to understand but, i think that the bird resembles herself and how she is cutoff from society.
Matthew Frain from United States
Comment 8 of 10, added on March 10th, 2007 at 6:07 AM.
it is abeautiful poem for her in which she utlizes the bird to reflect the dual nature of the humanbeigs at large and to reinforce the idea of the beauty and danger of nature as an intgeral to it
posy from Egypt
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if you read the poem, you notice that the tone of the poem is first, content, happiness. Then in the 3rd stanza it becomes more of a panic tone. And as the bird begins to fly away, the tone turns to calm and back to happiness. i think that emily is comparing this scene in nature to show us how this bird and humans are alike. For instance, when the bird is eating, its happy. This is the same when we humans are eating too. i mean no one eats in anger. Then when the bird is finished eating the bird becomes frantic because it feels as if its going to be attacked since its on the gound--unfamiliar territory--where it can not run away or defend itself as easily as in the air. Which leads to when the bird flies away and into the sky--familiar territory--the poem thus becomes calm again. Also, i think that in the last two lines of the 4th stanza and the first two lines of the 5th stanza, emily is comparing the air and the sky.
Ann from Vietnam