Emily Dickenson
Emily Dickenson was one of America’s most famous Romantic writers, but she was not even discovered until long after she passed away. She spent most of her time locked up in her room and never bothered to share any of her work with anyone mainly because a woman poet was unheard of in her time. Following her death, relative found thousands of poems strung together in the attic of her home that they since released and published for Americans to read and enjoy. The poetry that was found following her death shows how her letter writing is very similar to her poetic style--enigmatic and abstract, sometimes fragmented, and often forcefully sudden in emotion. A Bird Came down the Walk is a very confusing poem by Emily Dickenson. With the simplicity of the plot and a sense of humor, as in calling the angleworm a "fellow", there is certain playfulness and innocence in the poem, as if one was talking to a child in a nursery rhyme. This poem describes a bird that the persona was candidly watching come down a path and feed inconsiderably on a smaller worm, and then steal the water from a plant. However, this bird then pauses
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Approximate Word count = 755
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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