A Bird Came Down

A Bird Came Down
Poem lyrics of A Bird Came Down by Emily Dickinson.
A bird came down the walk: He did not know I saw; He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw.
And then he drank a dew From a convenient grass, And then hopped sidewise to the wall 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
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, splashless, as they swim.
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Analysis:

This poem is talking about the real view or behavior of each person. This poem used a bird to describe a person and when the bird didn't notice that the speaker was present and watching him, this bird acted naturally by "biting an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw." Raw symbolize the "wildness" and it shows that when people feels that they are safe and away from the other people, they show their awkwardness through their usual behavior like eating disgustfully.

And drinking dew from a grass symbolizes the "refinement" because dew kind of symbolizes the purity and richness and the bird hopped sidewise to the wall to let a beetle pass which symbolize that the bird was being polite because the beetle was present.

So Emily Dickinson is trying to show us that human is trying to be appropriate in front of other people and she is accepting that it is a natural thing, beautiful. This poem seems kind of dark but the remarkable thing about this poem is that she used the beautiful language by using stanza in the last sentence.

Why I chose this poem:
Because I agree with her thought that human's behavior changes when the people is around. Nobody in the world can deny her thought because it is a true reality and natural thing that people become nesty and show their stupidity when nobody is around.