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Emily Dickinson's A Bird Came Down The Walk

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"A Bird came down the Walk" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that reveals the poet's encounter with a worm-eating bird. I found this to be one of my favorite poems so far because it used a lot of imagery. Allowing the beauty and power of the natural world to appear obvious. Dickinson focused on a small part of the world and described it in great detail. The story provides the reader with a vivid image of a bird as it eats a worm, pecks at dew on the grass, hops past a beetle, and glances around nervously. Dickinson uses diction to provide the reader with evocative details of the bird and its surroundings. For example, the description of the birds bead-like eyes allows the reader to understand the nervousness and worry related to the situation.

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