in with the referring to the bird looking around scared, she shows the potential danger in nature. She uses the words “danger” and “cautious” as symbolic words to show her feeling of nature, though the idea remains a minor note in this stanza and in this poem.There is irony in this poem because the speaker is showing caution towards the bird and nature, while the bird is really just as scared and cautions as the speaker. When the speaker cautiously offers the crumb to the bird, the bird is scared enough to fly away. The beautiful flight of the bird is described over six lines. This poem reveals both the danger and the beauty of nature. Emily refers to the bird in “civilized” terms as a way of controlling the threat and dangers that are always present and suddenly appear in nature.The last poem that I read from Emily Dickinson was called “It bloomed and dropt, a Single Noon—.” This poem talks about a person who passes a flower in bloom and pays no attention to it. When the speaker comes back the next day the flower is dead. She realizes that if she would have just spent some time the day before with the flower she might have been able to save it. Nearing the end of the poem the speaker relates the flower to all of nature and says that by ignoring this one flower she has ignored all of nature. The flower in the poem is a symbol for maybe a lost lover or someone that Emily Dickinson lost close to her. She is trying to say that you have to give attention to everything while you have it or one day you are going to look and it is going to be gone. In this poem the imagery is used to show the depression and guilt in the speaker. When you read this poem you can picture the dead flower and you can feel the pain the speaker feels. The imagery in this poem is used to set up the tone of sadness and regret. Emily uses word choice and multiple meaning words to show how the speaker feels. She says ...
