ch "Oars divide the ocean" or butterflies leap "off Banks of Noon"; the bird appeared to swim without splashing.Dickinson keenly depicts the bird as it eats a worm, pecks at the grass, hops by a beetle, and glances around fearfully. As a natural creature frightened by the speaker into flying away, the bird becomes an emblem for the quick, lively, ungraspable wild essence that distances nature from the human beings who desire to tame it. But the most remarkable feature of this poem is the imagery of its final stanza, in which Dickinson provides a breath-taking description of flying. Simply by offering two quick comparisons of flight and by using aquatic motion (rowing and swimming), she depicts the delicacy and fluidity of moving through air....
