The Bee is not afraid

The Bee is not afraid


The bee is not afraid of me,

I know the butterfly;

The pretty people in the woods

Receive me cordially.



The brooks laugh louder when I come,

The breezes madder play.

Wherefore, mine eyes, thy silver mists?

Wherefore, O summer's day?


I think that Emily Dickinson was trying to convey the fact that things seemed to come more alive around her. She's trying to explain that she is so at peace with nature that nature accepts her as its own. The insects aren't afriad of her and instead they welcome her. SHe sees everything in a more vivid light than we all do and that feeling is conveyed in the poem. Her love for nature brightened the world around her as shown in this poem.