n that no one really notices it or even thinks about it all that much.Dickinson continues the poem by berating herself for not stopping to look at the flower long enough. She writes,“To find the Species disappeared-/ The Same Locality-/ The Sun in place- no other fraud/ On Nature’s perfect Sum-/ Had I but lingered Yesterday-/ Was my retrieveless blame-” (ll. 7-12).She wishes that she had taken more time to look at the flower while it was still there, before it died and an another flower reborn.In the poem “A Bird came down the Walk-”, Dickinson describes seeing a bird in her travels. She writes, “A Bird came down the Walk-/ He did not know I saw-/ He bit an Angleworm in halves/ And ate the fellow, raw,/ And then he drank a Dew/ From a convenient Grass-” (ll. 1-6).Here, Dickinson sets up the scene of a bird going about its business, doing what a bird does in its everyday life. She describes the bird, eating a worm and taking a drink from the grass. In a sense, it is much like what humans do in their everyday life, here Dickinson illustrates the similar phenomenon.Dickinson continues with her observation of the bird and moves to her encounter with the creature. She writes, “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-” (ll. 12-16).Here, she illustrates the situation of offering the bird some food, but having it snub her and walk away. The voice of the poem tried to make contact with the creature and break through the barriers of nature, the bird however, wanted nothing to do with it.The last stanza, moves the focus of the poem away from the bird,“Than Oars divide the Ocean,/ Too silver for a seam-/ Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon/ Leap, plashless as they swim”(ll. 17-20).The last stanza stands out from the rest of the poem because it is no longer focusing on the bird and t...
