Emily Dickinson's Garden of Poetry-In The Garden

In The Garden has many personifications and shows two sides to nature.  The poem starts out a bird being personified.  The bird eats a worm raw, referring to humans doing things "raw".  The bird is polite to the beetle, showing that humans are nice to some things/people (beetle) and mean to others (worm).  When the bird glances around nervously it shows the anxiety that humans can have.  It also shows how nature can be a scary and dangerous place.  The poem portrays that nature can be both beautiful and dangerous.