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    Lecture 3 A Bird Came Down The Walk

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    - Main Theme: Observation of a bird's interaction with its environment and a human. - Three sentences: The poem describes the persona observing a bird as it finds food around a walk, drinks dew from grass, lets a beetle pass, and flies off. The bird eats a worm raw, drinks water, and hops to let an insect pass, showing the interconnectedness of nature. Through precise language and punctuation, the poem captures the bird's movements and the persona's detailed observation in a musical, lyrical style.

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    Lecture 3 A Bird Came Down The Walk

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    - Main Theme: Observation of a bird's interaction with its environment and a human. - Three sentences: The poem describes the persona observing a bird as it finds food around a walk, drinks dew from grass, lets a beetle pass, and flies off. The bird eats a worm raw, drinks water, and hops to let an insect pass, showing the interconnectedness of nature. Through precise language and punctuation, the poem captures the bird's movements and the persona's detailed observation in a musical, lyrical style.

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    - Main Theme: Observation of a bird's interaction with its environment and a human. - Three sentences: The poem describes the persona observing a bird as it finds food around a walk, drinks dew from grass, lets a beetle pass, and flies off. The bird eats a worm raw, drinks water, and hops to let an insect pass, showing the interconnectedness of nature. Through precise language and punctuation, the poem captures the bird's movements and the persona's detailed observation in a musical, lyrical style.

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    Lecture 3 A Bird Came Down The Walk

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    - Main Theme: Observation of a bird's interaction with its environment and a human. - Three sentences: The poem describes the persona observing a bird as it finds food around a walk, drinks dew from grass, lets a beetle pass, and flies off. The bird eats a worm raw, drinks water, and hops to let an insect pass, showing the interconnectedness of nature. Through precise language and punctuation, the poem captures the bird's movements and the persona's detailed observation in a musical, lyrical style.

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    Emily Dickinson

    A Bird, came down the Walk – 


    A Bird, came down the Walk – Like one in danger, Cautious,
    He did not know I saw – I offered him a Crumb,
    He bit an Angle Worm in halves And he unrolled his feathers, 
    And ate the fellow, raw,  And rowed him softer Home –

    And then, he drank a Dew Than Oars divide the Ocean,


    From a convenient Grass – Too silver for a seam,
    And then hopped sidewise to the Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon,
    Wall Leap, plashless as they swim. 
    To let a Beetle pass –

    He glanced with rapid eyes,


    That hurried all abroad –
    They looked like frightened
    Beads, I thought,
    He stirred his Velvet Head. – 
    Summary/Overview
    • Main Theme: Relationship of Man and Nature
    • Simply put, an interaction b/w the poetic
    persona and a bird, and the observation as the
    bird finds food and takes flight
    • Three elements : Structure, Form/Tone, Sound,
    and Language
    Structure
    • a five stanza poem separated into quatrains (sets
    of four lines)
    • conforms to iambic trimeter
    • each line contains three sets of two beats, first is
    unstressed and the second stressed
    • many pauses, through commas and hyphens:
    give a lyrical feel to it
    Form
    • a loose rhyme scheme, with the pattern of ABCB
    • a few half or slant rhymes in stanza three
    A Bird, came down the Walk –
    He did not know I saw –
    He bit an Angle Worm in halves
    And ate the fellow, raw, 
     The personification of the Bird and the  ‘He’ again personifies the Bird
    Worm shows the unease of the speaker,
    as she portrays them as human beings,  ‘in halves’ and ‘raw’ shows the
    maybe also to show the bird as a brutality of nature
    representative of nature
     ‘fellow, raw,’ kind of ironic
     The constant pauses makes it sound
    almost musical  ABCB rhyme scheme

     The commas before and after ‘raw’


    emphasize the word even more
    And then, he drank a Dew
    From a convenient Grass –
    And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
    To let a Beetle pass –
     ‘And then…And then’ shows the level
    of detail of the persona’s observation
     The alliteration ‘drank a Dew’
    makes nature seem even more  ‘convenient Grass….let a Beetle pass’
    harmonious. shows how nature works in harmony
    and synchrony
     The punctuation again gives a
    melodious sound to the poem  ‘To let a Beetle pass-’ The Bird is
    shown to spare the Beetle, unlike the
     ABCB rhyme scheme Worm, because it has already eaten.
    Can be compared with the unending
    greed of humans
    He glanced with rapid eyes,
    That hurried all abroad –
    They looked like frightened Beads, I thought,
    He stirred his Velvet Head. –
    Like one in danger, Cautious,
    I offered him a Crumb,
    And he unrolled his feathers, 
    And rowed him softer Home –
    Than Oars divide the Ocean,
    Too silver for a seam,
    Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon,
    Leap, plashless as they swim. 

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