Nerdotopia

A Bird Came Down the Walk composed by reputed American poetess, Emily Dickinson brings a very common or ordinary incident with acute observation of detail and allows the reader to see a great significance in this seemingly trivial incident which adorns the reality of nature. Thus, this poem is based on the theme of unnecessary interference of nature by man. Here the poet has taken a bird as the protagonist (the center focus of this incident) or as the agent of nature to make this common scene very natural and realistic. Furthermore, the bird in this poem is symbolical as it represents the rest of nature. In this incident, the readers can clearly see the bird’s natural self-possession and it being at harmony with its own nature by enjoying the treasures of nature at its own free will. Thus the poetess visualizes   a very common act of a bird, coming down the path, catches a worm and pecks at it with its beak and splits it, eats it witch much appetite, then it fetches water from it...

  ‘In the poem “War is Kind”, Stephen Crane generates satire by meaning the opposite of what he says’. Do you agree? Discuss with reference to the poem.          War is Kind is an ironical, paradoxical poem under the themes of fabricated grandeur of war and horror of war. It’s composed by the modern American poet, Stephen Crane; generating the tragedy and horrors of war which the naive humans are compelled to face. It’s a classic example that generates satire by paradoxical statements. The poem encloses three plights in war; a young maiden who’s lover dies at war, a babe whose father dies at war and a mother who loses her only son due to war. Crane attempts to console them, but can’t help but to be sarcastic and paradoxical, regarding the issue; seemingly conveying that death was certain to all who’d enter the battlefield. The battlefield is paralleled to a slaughterhouse, where none could step out alive. Men with huge pride; romanticize...