Tone
This poem will strike the reader with a particular mood and give clear insight to the tone of the piece. The tone of Dickinson's poem has a gentle and respectful demeanor regarding nature. As the reader, you experience the bird in the first person: "Like one in danger, Cautious, I offered him a Crumb/ And he unrolled his feathers/ And rowed him softer home --/ Than Oars divide the Ocean,/ Too silver for a seam --." The attention to detail carries a tone of admiration and awe in the aesthetic sense. The reader clearly delights watching the motion of the bird initiating flight as Dickinson compares the bird's wings to oars. Dickinson pleasantly describes the wings as smoother, more effortlessly able to cut into the wind than oars dividing the ocean.