The word 'rowed' is remarkable to describe the bird's flight. In this poem, Dickinson exhibits her extraordinary poetic powers of observation and description of a simple incident of a bird. The speaker passionately portrays the bird as it eats a worm, brushes at the grass, hops by a beetle, and looks around fearfully.
It was thought that the aerodynamics of flapping flight in birds is fully understood for quite some time, but recent studies have shown that this is not the case. Bird flight uses aerodynamic mechanisms to generate lift and thrust that differ significantly from conventional aircraft.
