A Bird Came Down The Walk (poem) Summary

A Bird Came Down The Walk by Emily Dickinson

A Bird Came Down The Walk is a short poem in which the poet tells us her experience when she encounters a bird on the walk eating an angle worm, drinking a dew from the grass and stepping aside for letting a beetle pass by. The bird seems to be frightened. The poet tries to give the bird a crumb but the bird flies away from there. The poet says that the flight of the bird is ´´softer than that of a boat being rowed on the water or that of butterflies plunging soundlessly into space´´.

Emily Dickinson

Born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson left school as a teenager, eventually living a reclusive life on the family homestead. There, she secretly created bundles of poetry and wrote hundreds of letters. Due to a discovery by sister Lavinia, Dickinson's remarkable work was published after her death—on May 15, 1886, in Amherst—and she is now considered one of the towering figures of American literature.