Congratulations to Theophrastvs for correctly guessing yesterday’s poem! (Be sure to read the comments, where Clive Thompson reveals a second, and possibly better version of Ozymandias.)
Today’s poem might be a bit tougher, but you are a well-read bunch so you’ll probably guess it it right away.
Here’s the deal: the above image is an AI interpretation of a snippet from a well-known poem. If you think you know what it is, submit your answer in the comments. Good luck!
You are too good! I think I need to start a special competition just for you
too many poems about blackbirds, oh... let's go with Dickinson:
A Bird came down the Walk [1]
"A Bird came down the Walk" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) that tells of the poet's encounter with a worm-eating bird. The poem was first published in 1891 in the second collection of Dickinson's poems.
IN THE GARDEN
A bird came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw.
And then, he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass. ...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bird_came_down_the_Walk