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 stanza, the diction changes from the hurt and pain, to the acceptance of her pain, "... Lift, in bereaved acknowledgment." 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." Both poems develop the theme of nature as exquisite beauty, but also with a sense of pain to it.
             Dickinson manipulates the tone in both poems. In "A Bird Came Down the Walk--", the speaker achieves an objective point of view throughout the first three stanzas. The descriptions are clear, "A Bird came down the Walk--" through "To let a Beetle pass--&q...