42. A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

Well I feel that I am a bit jipped on account of I was not at school when this blog was assigned and I was not able to discuss it with other people so for this blog it will be alllllll me. Alright, so the first time I read this poem, I thought it was talking about a snake, saying how it divided the grass and what not. Makes sense right? I think so. Also, before I go any futher with my analysis, I would like to say that some of the time, I think that authors just plain wrote poems. They did not necessarily have to mean anything deeper than what it appears on the surface, it was just something they needed to do. I do that sometimes, but with drawing. If I can not think of anything good to draw or paint or whatever, or if I just have to draw something but do not have any ideas as to what, (and it happens all the time) I almost always just start scribbling or doodling until something good comes out of it, then I take those several lame ideas and work off of them to get one good thing. I think that that is what authors do sometimes too, sometimes they just need to write but do not necessarily have anything deep to write about at the moment so they just write about whatever they see. That could just be my opinion, but I stand by it. So what I was trying to get at with all of that was I do not think that this poem necessarily has to have another meaning to it. It could just be about a snake in the grass, maybe it was just a word-vomit poem like I was talking about. The poem does use a lot of imagery however, so Dickinson must have actually given the poem some effort instead of just throwing something together for the heck of it.