compare and contrast of emily

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

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” The speaker provides a summary of what will happen every year as she watches this exquisite nature bloom before her eyes, “… No Blossom stayed away. In “A Bird came down the Walk--”, a change of tone from the transition to third and fourth stanza “… He stirred his Velvet Head/ Like one in danger, Cautious,”. In “I Dreaded that First Robin So,” the reader later finds out why she is suffering from nature in the second to last stanza. Again, more of objective tone, “He glance with rapid eyes” through “He stirred his Velvet Head”. Both poems establish a beautiful sense of nature. ” The diction in these two lines is vital in creating a wonderful image to nature. Figurative language uses itself as a tool to beautify and simplify the complexity 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. ” Both poems develop the theme of nature as exquisite beauty, but also with a sense of pain to it. 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. ” 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.

Emily Dickinson’s “A Bird Came Down the Walk--” and “I Dreaded that First Robin So,” are different and similar in many ways. Dickinson makes the transition to nature by using metaphors in both poems. Both poems dominate the theme of nature and its beauty along with pain imagery. Emily Dickinson’s wonderful writing style beautifies nature.

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