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What Is The Mood Of The Poem Bird By Emily Dickinson
Analysis on Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘Birds’
The Poem “A Bird Came down the Walk” by Emily Dickenson describes the simple experience of her watching a bird walk down the path. She shows the bird and its actions throughout the poem, providing us with an image of what she’s seeing. The poem makes the reader feel and experience the simple way the bird acts beautiful f nature. Dickenson creates the mood of the poem by detailing the sequence of activities a bird goes through as simple as they may be, she then turns the description into a poetic endeavour though imagery and contrast. The first three stanzas of the poem are reasonably interchangeable since they describe three events that could occur in any order when watching birds. This

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