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Emily Dickinson's "A Bird Came Down the Walk--" and "I Dreaded that First Robin So," compare and contrast in a number of significant ways. Both works incorporate the theme of nature, juxtaposed with pain imagery. A strong tone in both poems helps to carry out the speaker's message. The figurative language helps support the theme of nature.Nature is exquisitely beautiful, but it also has a dark side to it. In "A Bird Came Down the Walk--", depicts a bird biting "an Angleworm in halves/ And ate the fellow, raw" and "drank the Dew." In "I Dreaded that First Robin So," depicts a "Robin" "Woods," "Daffodils," "Grass," "Blossom," and "Bees." Both poems begin with a bird and pain imagery; "bit an Angleworm," in "A Bird Came Down the Walk--", and "He hurts a little, though--" in "I Dreaded that First Robin So,". In "A Bird Came Down the Walk--", the final stanza achieves a beautiful image of a butterfly rowing its wings threw the sky, as if it were swimming without splashes. Dickinson creates a naturalistic and wonderful feel toward nature. In "I Dreaded that First Robin So," in the final s
In "I Dreaded that First Robin So," the tone magnifies more with resentment (because of the pain) in the fifth stanza, "I could not bear the Bees should come, / I wished they'd stay away/ In those dim countries where they go," A clear evidence of the tone increased is the capitalization of "Bees. Also a painful tone in the last line of the first stanza, "He hurts a little, though--". In "A Bird Came Down the Walk--", nature imagery in the last two stanzas includes poetic metaphors, "And he unrolled his feathers/ And rowed him softer home. Both poems establish a beautiful sense of nature. Simply by offering two quick comparisons of flight with aquatic motion (rowing and swimming), she evokes a sense of delicacy and fluidity of moving through the air. Again, more of objective tone, "He glance with rapid eyes" through "He stirred his Velvet Head". Emily Dickinson uses tone to influence the theme of nature. " Dickinson provides one of the most breath-taking descriptions of flying in all of poetry, "Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon/ Leap, plashless as they swim. In "I Dreaded that First Robin So," the reader later finds out why she is suffering from nature in the second to last stanza. Emily Dickinson's wonderful writing style beautifies nature. Dickinson manipulates the tone in both poems. " This affects the speaker, deeply, and shows it through her diction and gradual increase pain in the tone. In "I Dreaded that First Robin So," it is different.
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