pass him. The speaker then mentions the bird looking around, hurrying, and moving his head. Again, they do not state his exact kind of motion. In this stanza, the speaker offers their own idea of the bird’s emotions, using asimile: his eyes “looked like frightened Beads, I thought.” They continue speculating that the bird feels endangered.

The last six lines use several metaphors for the bird’s motions, as the speaker uses imagery that conveys their own thoughts more than what they actually see. After the speaker offers “him a Crumb,” the bird presumably flies away. The speaker states that “he unrolled his feathers.” They apply metaphors related to water, comparing the bird's motion to rowing or butterflies swimming.

In the third stanza of the poem, the speaker says that the bird "glanced with rapid eyes, / That hurried all abroad." The implication here is that the bird was looking for predators that might have posed a danger to its life. The fact that the bird's eyes moved quickly to look in all directions suggests that it was aware that there were many potential predators to be wary of. The bird was vigilant and seemingly hyperaware of these potential predators. Also in the third stanza, the speaker compares the bird's eyes to "frightened Beads." The word "frightened" indicates that perhaps the bird had experienced dangerous situations and near escapes before.

In the fourth stanza of the poem, the speaker says that she offered the bird "a Crumb" and the bird immediately flew away. There is no indication from the speaker that the bird even thought about approaching the speaker and taking the crumb. Rather, the bird immediately "unrolled his feathers" and took flight. This reaction also suggests that the bird was very wary and cautious. Perhaps the bird was frightened because he had been attacked in the past.

There are also clues throughout the poem to suggest that the speaker wants us to see the bird as delicate and beautiful. The poet suggests that the bird is delicate by reminding us of how small it is. It is so small as to be able to drink "a Dew / From a convenient Grass." The speaker also describes the bird's "Velvet Head" and compares the bird's wings in flight to "Oars" that "divide the Ocean." These descriptions suggest that the bird is majestic, elegant, and beautiful.

The flying aspect of the bird’s motion comes rather late in Emily Dickinson’s poem. For more than half of the poem, the bird does not fly. Instead, as the speaker observes, he does a number of other actions while on its feet: eating a worm, drinking water from the dew, hopping, glancing around, hurrying, and moving his head. The speaker interprets these actions to mean that the bird feels threatened, so they cautiously extend a crumb. At that point, the flight descriptions and comparisons begin. The only direct reference to a bird flying is the statement “he unrolled his feathers.” The speaker then states that he “rowed . . . Home,” moving through the air more softly and seamlessly than oars in the ocean. A more direct comparison to other creatures’ flight is to butterflies, referring to the ways they “swim,” actually lighting on the water’s surface without making a splash.

The poem 'a Bird came down the Walk' by Emily Dickinson can be compared to Ted Hughes poem about thrushes. Both concern the two faces of Nature - and the contrast which brings about fear in humans. Here are some contrasts:

The bird's head is soft and feathery and the poet probably finds him sweet to look at - at first. Then she sees him do what he must do to get by in the dog-eat-dog environment of the natural world. Without compunction, compassion or remorse he 'bites' a defenceless, harmless worm clean in two and eats him right up.

The contrast between how he looks and what he actually does scares the watcher and she even seems to offer him a crumb not of affection but to pacify his killer instinct! This shows how,although Man is powerful, he cannot tame Nature and deep down if all our civilization aids like transport and bureaucacy were to break down by sheer force of nature, such as in global warming tsunamis or earthquakes, we are afraid we might all perish as Nature has no pity.

In Emily Dickinson's poem "A Bird came down the Walk—," the bird is searching for a morning meal. The bird is able to find a worm that he quickly snatches up and bites in half. Then, satisfied with this breakfast, the bird takes a drink of dew from the grass that is covered with the morning water. The speaker offers the bird a bit of food, but the bird is too suspicious of people and departs in flight once the speaker offers the crumb. The bird flew down to obtain his breakfast, quickly surveyed the scene, and then departed gracefully back into the sky. The poem is certainly a lovely glance into the simple morning search for breakfast from a lovely little bird.