This poem describes a dead bird found by Emily Dickinson. It vividly depicts the bird's lifeless body, with its beak clasped, eyes forsaken, feathers wilted, and claws hanging indifferently. The final lines reflect Dickinson's outrage at the hunter who killed the bird, likening it to shooting angels from the sky and wasting their beautiful song. The document provides analysis of the poem's language and devices, and speculation about Dickinson's reaction upon seeing the dead bird.

1. EMILY
DICKINSON
Giorgetti
Gloria 4BH

2. A DEAD BIRD by PAUL SANDBY

3. His Bill is clasped - his Eye
forsook
His Feathers wilted low -
The Claws that clung, like
lifeless Gloves
Indifferent hanging now -
The Joy that in his happy Throat
Was waiting to be poured
Gored through and through with
Death, to be
Assassin of a Bird
Resembles to my outraged mind
The fring in Heaven,
On Angels - squandering for you
Their Miracles of Tune -
Il Becco è serrato - l’Occhio spento
Le Piume avvizzite -
Gli Artigli che stingevano, come
Guanti senza vita
Indifferenti pendono ora -
La Felicità che nella Gola gioiosa
Aspettava di essere versata
Infilzata da parte a parte dalla
Morte, essere
Assassino di un Uccello
Somiglia per la mia mente
oltraggiata
A sparar in Cielo
Su Angeli - che spargono per te
I loro Miracoli di Melodia -

4. This poem is a realistic description of a bird’s killing by a hunter.
Maybe it was written very quickly to tells a scene just happened that
Emily Dickinson looked from her window and that ‘‘outraged’’ her
mind.
In the first six lines the poem shows the bird dead in every his part
(the beak, the eye, the feathers and the claws). At the end of this six
lines it shows how the bird was killed, perhaps shooted to side by
side in the throat which was waiting to pour his happiness.
In the last six lines it shows the repulsion that the scene causes in a
person who is watching and who think that the hunt is just the killing
of melodious angel in the sky.
In this poem we can see the love that Emily Dickinson had to nature
MEANING

5. ANALYSIS OF WORDS
His Bill is clasped - his Eye
forsook
His Feathers wilted low -
The Claws that clung, like
lifeless Gloves
Indifferent hanging now -
The Joy that in his happy Throat
Was waiting to be poured
Gored through and through with
Death, to be
Assassin of a Bird
Resembles to my outraged mind
The fring in Heaven,
On Angels - squandering for you
Their Miracles of Tune -
Anaphora (repetition of a word at
the biginning of successive
verse)
Simile (two essentially unlike
things are comparated, often in a
phrase introduced by ‘like’ or
‘as’)
Alliteration (repetition of
identical or similar sounds at the
beginning of consecutive words)

6. A DEAD BIRD by PAUL SANDBY
This draw in
watercolor depict a
dead Carduelis
Carduelis.
Its song is one of the
most beautiful songs of
birds.
Paul Sandby was a british painter, he was born in Notthingam in
1731 and died in London in 1809. He has been specializing in the
draw of landscapes in watercolor.

7. PERSONALANALYSIS
The life of every creatue is important so kill for fun, and not for eat,
is morally wrong.
Maybe it was the same thing that Emily Dickinson thought and when
she saw a man who was killing a bird she felt disgusted so she wrote
this poem to share her feeling and not forget it.
This is a draw in watercolor and
pen that I made after reading
the poem and is ispirate by it.
I wanted to show the cruelty of
hunt and the visual image that
the description of Emily
Dickinson give to me.

8. MURDERED BIRD
In my opinion a possible title can be ‘‘Murdered Bird’’
Murder:
The unlawful killing of one human being by another.
I choose this word to raise the animal at the same importance level of
mankind.
Bird:
A worm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate animal distinguished by
possession of feathers, wings, beak and typicale by being able to fly.

9. LINKS: THE STORY OF A SEAGULLAND THE
CAT WHO TAUGHT HER TO FLY
The Story Of A Seagull And The Cat
Who Taught Her To Fly is a romance
written by Luis Sepúlveda in 1996.
The story tells about a young seagull
who, while she is looking for food, she
end up in an oil spill.
She turns out to fly until a port and,
with her last power, she decides to
realize her dream: lay an egg.
This egg, that will become a seagull, is
looked after by a cat as last favor to the
dying seagull-mother.
This moving story makes us think

10. OIL POLLUTION
It’s an environment
contamination causated by all
kinds of liquid hydrocarbons
like crude oil and its
derivatives.
The oil discharged into the
sea is naturally degraded by
the environment, but it cause
serious damage to the marine
species of surface, especially
to bird. The bird, while they
are tring to clean their
feathers, ingest oil that causes
them fatal poisonings.

11. Nowadays the hunting isn’t the only disgusting thing that kills
animals.
Animals die for more reasons like the pollution or chemical tests and
there are others, but it’s always a human being’s faul.
Some of these crimes are show in Rise Against’s video Ready To
Fall to make aware people who are listening and watching it
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN2FrUUq-zI).