Syed Tahmas Ghani Period 6 Mr.

Holbrook 2/9/2012 In The Garden Assertion and Paragraph Emily Dickinson is very detailed in her poem In the Garden as she describes an encounter she had with a bird. She vividly describes the situation in the first stanza by using geometrical diction with words like halves, and angle to show the precision of the bird's actions. This smoothness is also supported by the nice flow in the first and second stanzas which have nice true rhymes in the second and fourth lines. She also uses a timid register of diction throughout the last two stanzas of the poem to show how the bird's, as well as the poem's mood changed. The erratic meter and lack of rhymes throughout the end of this poem help to emphasize the disturbance that has been created in the bird' proceedings as a result of the author's presence. Overall I believe that Emily Dickinson uses varying registers of diction, different rhymes, and a uneven meter in this poem to help portray the message that no matter how hard people try, most interactions with nature only disturb it and break its flow.