"The black snake" the speaker feels sympathy for the snake once it is killed. " A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" the speaker feels anxious about the snake.
The speaker in "The Black Snake" evokes the emotions of pity for the snake that has been killed whereas in the poem "A Narrow Fellow in The Grass" the speaker evokes the feelings of terror and horror.
Explanation:
Mary Oliver, an American poet, is widely known and appreciated as an "indefatigable guide to the natural world". She is also the winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book award. She vividly wrote poems about the wild. In her poem "The Black Snake" she tells of a snake who is killed on the road in the morning time by a truck. The narrator of the poem feels pity seeing a dead snake lying on the road like an "old bicycle tire." The narrator gets down from the car and picks the dead snake and "leave him under the leaves". The emotions evoked by the poet in this poem for the snake is that of pity and sorrow.
"A Narrow Fellow In The Grass" is a poem written by Emily Dickinson believed to be written in 1865. This poem speaks about the snake without mentioning the word 'snake'. In this poem, the speaker illustrates the deceptiveness of the snake who lies in the grass. The speaker mistakes the snake to be a whip and tries to grab it and is surprised to see that it is a snake. The speaker of the poem, though, is a nature lover but is startled to see a snake because of its nature. The poem tells that though one must be a nature lover but it is impossible to love a snake. The emotions that Dickinson portrays in this poem about the snake is that of horror and terror.
