A bird came down the walk by Emily Dickinson

A bird came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw.

And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass.

He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad,--
They looked like frightened beads, I thought;
He stirred his velvet head

Like one in danger; cautious,
I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home

Than oars divide the ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,
Leap, plashless, as they swim.

The bird acts naturally in front of Dickinson, and he shows his wilderness by eating a “raw” worm. This action is non-humanness. But, in stanza two, Dickinson describes the bird as human being. He drank a dew from a grass; it’s like he drank the water from glass. The bird also politely let the beetle pass through.

Emily Dickinson tries to contact with the bird by offering it food, but the bird flies away because her action.

This poem also talks about nature. Dickinson observes the bird’s appearance and behavior.