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437 A Million Miracles Now - "A Bird, came down the Walk" by Emily Dickinson

The History of Literature

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A Bird Came Down the Walk

A bird came down the walk. He did not know i saw. He bit an angle worm in halves and ate the fellow. Yes, mary, that is light verse. Laugh out loud, funny, but also with a kind of dark humour. A few lines from emily dickinson's poem tiwdat made me laugh out loud. But what do you think this poem will be about? If you heard it as first four lines, then we'll see where she got those words. We'll take our last break to dive into one of her most famous poems before going back for more analysis.

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