This poet was born on December 10th, 1830, in Massachusetts and began writing poetry in her teenage years. During her time, she was an unrecognized American poet whose poems consisted of different themes which included faith, truth, beauty, death and pain. All of her poems that she wrote weren’t discovered until after her death in 1886. This poets name was Emily Dickinson. There was also another theme that Emily Dickinson wrote about too which was nature. Nature was one out of the many themes that Emily Dickinson conveyed in her poems. There were numerous amounts of Emily Dickinson poems that had the common theme of nature. This theme was conveyed in the poem “A Bird came down the Walk” (640). In this poem the speaker is watching a bird.
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Emily Dickinson makes readers see the little details and different aspects of nature so that they can see how neat it is. There were many key words in the poem that suggested this. For example, Dickinson wrote “glanced with rapid eyes / That hurried all around – / They looked like frightened Beads” (9-11). Each of these key words was very descriptive and observational that it helps bring out the artistic aspect of nature. Other than “A Bird came down the Walk”, which brings out the artistic aspect of nature, another poem by Dickinson that has the theme of nature is “Nature is what we see” (650). In this poem the reader is describing what we only see in nature. Dickinson lists things that are seen: “The Hill – the Afternoon / Squirrel – Eclipse – the Bumble bee –“(2-3). Overall, the speaker is suggesting that nature seems so simple but if you take a closer look at it, it is much more of a strange and wonderful part of this world. She does this by saying that nature is not just what we see but also what we …show more content…
In this poem the speaker is vividly describing, what it seems to be, a snake crawling through the grass. First, the speaker mentions the words “your” and you” which puts the reader into the shoes of the speaker. She ponders the question if readers have seen one before and then begins to describe what the snake is doing. The snake then turns into a man when the speaker writes, “Yet when a Boy, and Barefoot – “(11). This means that the snake was truly a man after all and that she was just using an animal to describe him. Overall, the speaker is using a snake as a metaphor for a
Emily Dickinson makes readers see the little details and different aspects of nature so that they can see how neat it is. There were many key words in the poem that suggested this. For example, Dickinson wrote “glanced with rapid eyes / That hurried all around – / They looked like frightened Beads” (9-11). Each of these key words was very descriptive and observational that it helps bring out the artistic aspect of nature. Other than “A Bird came down the Walk”, which brings out the artistic aspect of nature, another poem by Dickinson that has the theme of nature is “Nature is what we see” (650). In this poem the reader is describing what we only see in nature. Dickinson lists things that are seen: “The Hill – the Afternoon / Squirrel – Eclipse – the Bumble bee –“(2-3). Overall, the speaker is suggesting that nature seems so simple but if you take a closer look at it, it is much more of a strange and wonderful part of this world. She does this by saying that nature is not just what we see but also what we …show more content…
In this poem the speaker is vividly describing, what it seems to be, a snake crawling through the grass. First, the speaker mentions the words “your” and you” which puts the reader into the shoes of the speaker. She ponders the question if readers have seen one before and then begins to describe what the snake is doing. The snake then turns into a man when the speaker writes, “Yet when a Boy, and Barefoot – “(11). This means that the snake was truly a man after all and that she was just using an animal to describe him. Overall, the speaker is using a snake as a metaphor for a