8221; she is saying how the feeling penetrates to “the bone” and suggests how deeply felt, and how intense the emotion is. By using these connotation at the end of her poem she could be referring to death or dying, maybe from fear of the snake. This poem uses many symbols, and specific word choice to show how danger may reveal itself in nature. After reading the poem the tone can be seen as frightening or depressing because Emily takes the beauty of nature and shows that there are sides to it that can be threatening and dangerous as well. In another poem by Emily Dickinson entitled “In the Garden” she also uses lots of imagery about nature. She uses sight and sound imagery to give the reader an idea of what the speaker is seeing and hearing. Also, again she uses personification to give the bird human characteristics. Talking about the bird as it “came” down the walk is an example of this. Emily uses symbols to give the bird human qualities. She says that the bird “bit an angle-worm in halves/And ate the fellow, raw.” Ironically the word “raw” shows an implication of human values and practices. Why would you expect the bird to cook its food? Emily then goes on to talk about the bird drinking dew “From a convenient grass” which can be symbolic of a glass a human would drink from. The bird is then polite to a beetle by hopping sidewise to the wall. This statement gives the bird a personality, which is personification. Continuing into the next stanza the speaker talk about the bird as “He glanced with rapid eyes”. In this line, the imagery of the bird’s looking around suggests the bird’s caution and fear, as well as possible threat in nature. Later in the stanza Emily uses a simile, “They looked like frightened beads, I thought;” to describe the bird in civilized terms with the words “beads” and “velvet”. Aga...
