Complete a Poetry Analysis using the poem given in the handout. This must include the graphic organizer, thesis, and paragraph explaining/proving the thesis.

Poem Title: A narrow fellow in the Grass Author: Emily Dickinson

A narrow Fellow in the Grass

Occasionally rides -

You may have met him? Did you not

His notice instant 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 -

But when a Boy and Barefoot

I more than once at Noon

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.

ELEMENT	ANALYSIS	EXAMPLE FROM POEM
STRUCTURE
MEANING
IMAGERY
LANGUAGE
EFFECT
Thesis (What do you believe the poem is about? What is the author expressing in the poem?) Explanation & Proof of Thesis: