A Bird Came Down The Walk

1. A Bird Came Down The Walk By: Emily Dickinson

2. A Bird Came Down The Walk A bird came down the walk:He did not know I saw;He bit an angle-worm in halvesAnd ate the fellow, raw. And then he drank a dewFrom a convenient grass,And then hopped sidewise to the wallTo let a beetle pass. He glanced with rapid eyesThat hurried all abroad, -They looked like frightened beads, I thoughtHe stirred his velvet head. Like one in danger; cautious,I offered him a crumb,And he unrolled his feathersAnd rowed him softer home. Than oars divide the ocean,Too silver for a seam,Or butterflies, off banks at noon,Leap, plashless, as they swim.

3. Aim: How closely do people observe their surroundings?Do Now: Picture yourself in a park or out for a walk somewhere. Describe what you see around you and list all details. Try to create imagery!

4. Emily Dickinson • Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. • Emily attended Mouth Holyoke Female Seminary and returned home after a year because of homesickness. • She was always a shy and lonely child. • Emily was born into a well-known family, her father and mother was named Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson. • Emily had the Bright's Disease which affects her kidney and died on May 15 1886 at the age 56.

5. Similes • “He glanced with rapid eyes, that hurried all abroad,- they looked like frightened beads, I thought. That is an example of simile because it used like. It compared his eyes to beads. Another simile is “ Like one in danger; cautious, I offered him a crumb”, this is comparing how he acted cautious as if a person was in danger.

6. Imagery • “ A bird came down the walk: He did not know I saw; He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw.” -In this first stanza, you can picture a bird coming down from a tree or something else that he was on. He bit a worm in half and ate it. • “And then he drank a dew From a convenient grass, And then hopped side wise to the wall To let a beetle pass.”-In this second stanza, the bird is on the grass and he is consuming all the dirty things on the grass. Then you can picture the bird letting the beetle pass so it moved it one side. • “He glanced with rapid eyes That hurried all abroad, - They looked like frightened beads, I thought He stirred his velvet head.”-In this third stanza, the bird is looking at what’s around him and might picture it to be cautious if something bad is going to happen.

7. Personification Examples of personification in this poem are… -“And then he drank a dew From a convenient grass” is an example of personification because birds can’t drink anything, they can only eat therefore it is a human trait. -“He glanced with rapid eyes That hurried all abroad,-” that is expressing personification because the bird’s eyes can’t hurry all abroad. The bird’s eyes can only move but not go anywhere else.

8. Rhyme A bird came down the walk:He did not know I saw;He bit an angle-worm in halvesAnd ate the fellow, raw. And then he drank a dewFrom a convenient grass,And then hopped sidewise to the wallTo let a beetle pass. He glanced with rapid eyesThat hurried all abroad, -They looked like frightened beads, I thoughtHe stirred his velvet head. Like one in danger; cautious,I offered him a crumb,And he unrolled his feathersAnd rowed him softer home. Than oars divide the ocean,Too silver for a seam,Or butterflies, off banks at noon,Leap, plashless, as they swim. ABCB ABCB ABCD ABCD ABCD

9. Meter U / U / U / A bird came down the walk: U / U / U / He did not know I saw; U / U / U / U He bit an angle-worm in halves U / U / U And ate the fellow, raw. U / U / U / And then he drank a dew U / U / From a convenient grass, U / U / U / U And then hopped sidewise to the wall U / U / U To let a beetle pass.

10. Conclusion I think that people don’t take time to observe their surroundings. They only care about what they have and what they want. If people do take time to observe things, there wouldn’t be a lot of pollution and different kinds of problems occurring.