Journal #42 Evaluation of A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

In our English class we are focusing on Emily Dickinson poems. As we read some of these poems that she composed, you start to see many similarities in her poem to the one that you last read. They pretty much all deal with nature in some way or another, and similarly they all have much imagery to them. In this blog I am suppose to evaluate the poem A Narrow Fellow in the Grass. Just like all the other poems by her, it talks about nature and has much imagery in it. In the first stanza, it talks about a narrow fellow in the grass who rides through it. He also says that you may or may not have seen him. These details of it being narrow and riding through the grass tell me that this fellow is probably just an everyday earth worm that Emily Dickinson saw while walking and decided to write a poem about. As I read the next two stanzas of this poem I am starting to realize that I was right about the conclusion I had about this poem when I just read the first stanza about it. They talk about more characteristics of the worm but, they are many characteristics that I would have never thought to write about a worm, and are very creative to say the least. As the person in this story notices more and more about the worm, it becomes evident just how amazed this person is at just a simple earth worm. My conclusion is pretty much proven when the very last line says that this animal has zero bone at all so it pretty much can only be a snake or worm with the description that was given to me. With this poem it is pretty amazing the detail that you can get out of just an everyday normal Earth worm. The person in the story was pretty amazed with it and near the end of the story I was too.