Poetry answers

Poetry Answers 

A Bird Came Down the Walk 

Paraphrase :

The main idea of the poem is the beauty of a bird and how it spontaneously reacts 

 While the poet was walking on the pavement a bird came on the ground .It didn't know that the poet saw it . The bird found a worm which it ate immediately . It then went to the grass to drink from the dew on it .When it saw a beetle pass it stood aside to let it pass . While the bird was looking around quickly it saw the poet watching it . Its eyes were filled with fear ,though they were shinning like jewels . It moved its smooth head as if someone in danger . The poet tried to be friendly by offering it crumbs of bread . It then spread its wings and flew away home .It did it quietly and smoothly just like the oars of a boat that travel in the ocean or the butterflies that jump around without a sound .

Figures of speech :

1)ate the fellow à personification

 Compared the worm to a man who has been attacked by a fierce animal

2)They looked like frightened beads àSimile  

 The bird's eyes were shinning like jewels and it was frightened 

3)And rowed him softer home àMetaphor

The poet compared the bird's feathery wings to oars that rowed him home

Question 3 :

The bird was frightened , felt in danger , cautious .

The Rain 

Answers to the questions :

1)The poet presented the rain drops covering the leaves in the trees making a wonderful attractive noise . He then says that after the rain stops the sun light will reach every leaf and makes it shines .

2 ) The figures of speech :

Leaves drinking rain à Personification 

The poet personifies leaves to a person who is drinking rain 

Giving the poor beneath à Personification  

The poet personifies the upper leaves to rich people who give the poor people water 

These drinking leaves drinking water à Personification 

 The poet personifies the leaves to people drinking 

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