A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

Emily Dickinson * Track #97 On Second Series

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Emily Dickinson

1891

A Narrow Fellow in the Grass by Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson

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This is a poem that, on one level, describes an encounter with a snake. The narrator has a close relationship and respect for the natural world. The snake is a friend, a ‘fellow’, but also sinister. There’s a change in tone and about halfway through, the snake transforms into a metaphor for deceit.
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A Narrow Fellow in the Grass Annotated

A narrow fellow in the grass
Occasionally rides -
You may have met him,—did you not?
His notice sudden is -

The grass divides as with a comb
A spotted shaft is seen
And then it closes at your feet
And opens further on -

He likes a boggy acre -
A floor too cool for corn -
Yet when a boy, and barefoot
I more than once, at morn
Have passed, I thought, a whip-lash
Unbraiding in the sun
When, stooping to secure it
It wrinkled, and was gone -

Several of nature's people
I know, and they know me
I feel for them a transport
Of cordiality

But never met this fellow
Attended or alone
Without a tighter breathing
And zero at the bone

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