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Through out times and across cultures, Nature plays a dominant role in poetry because its symbols share out the poet's sadness, dreams, and feelings. Because of that poets recognize the importance of landscapes and nature and use them as symbols throughout their poems. Only by meditations, they can easily find in nature's elements. Most of their required symbols enable their readers to understand their ideas clearly.

In this regard, the bird's symbol is considered one of the most significant symbols which has been used by many poets. They been fascinated by the bird more than anything else because bird's symbol has a strong ability to express poets' thoughts and attitudes. Therefore many American writers specially poets turn to use it as a dominant symbol in many of their poems.

Of course there must be reasons behind this mysterious attraction of the bird which lead poets to build an eternal companionship with this humble creature in their own writing. " Birds are used more frequently in poetry than in any other genre because they can be incorporated more easily in the minute imagery that makes up the basic stuff of poetry than in the border elements upon plot and character upon which drama and fiction depend" (lutwack 3).

I think the relation between the poet and the bird is much differentiated and strangely one because they supposed to be in a fellowship for many reasons. First, both have the same desire and to be free .It is well-known how much poets wish if they could express themselves freely, and they hate to be captive as a caged bird. Second, poets always seek for words and ways which make their poems high as a the flight of bird in the sky. To illustrate, on way or the other the bird's ability to fly has fas...

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...oem, Dickinson presents a scenario which calls attention to a very beautiful and natural metaphor. She compares the bird's wings when it flies to the "oars" because they "divide the oceans" as the wings divide the sky. The final collage of images used to describe the bird in flight also resists logical associations. These “leaping” poetic images combine to produce a deeper, intuitive seeing that utterly breaks down the human egocentric tendency to impose itself upon that which is being observed (70).

Actually, this poem records Dickinson's fond of nature and its tiny things. She likes the feathered beings' freedom life in her own terms.

To conclude and after we shed light on this literary image. We find that, In all cases the bird is used as a functional and helpful symbol, not just for decoration. It is used as a device for poetic codification.