“Two Butterflies Went Out at Noon,” is an Emily Dickinson poem that is strictly focused on nature, and the aspects associated with nature. In this case, the poem is dealing with butterflies. The speaker is very monotone in this story. The fact that there are two butterflies is significant because that could represent something like a friendship or a relationship(Dickinson, Emily 18). Emily Dickinson had a “tiny” writing style and she usually incorporated things that were not very significant and seen by most people. In this story, the butterflies represent a part of nature that most people do not notice on the day to day. In this poem though, she describes how they are on a journey and no one knows about it.  Unless the birds came upon these two butterflies, no one would even notices that these two miraculous butterflies were on a tremendous and great journey.  Butterflies only live for a certain amount of time, so most people consider them insignificant, because one may think that butterflies do nothing for society, nature, etc.  But, in facts, butterflies are significant, and I think that is the message Emily Dickinson is trying to get across with her poem “Two Butterflies Went Out At Noon.” The great thing about this poem is the mystery that she puts into it. The butterflies are flying over the sea, but no one sees them, or hears them, so no word is brought to her, but yet she thinks up this whole scenario. This poem does reflect a lot of nature, but also a lot of love. The two butterflies are a couple and represent a symbol in this story. The mystery of this relationship is for the reader to make interpretations. Also in this poem, the speaker makes reference to birds when she says "if spoken by the distant bird, if met in ether sea by frigate or by merchantman, report was not to me"(Dickinson, Emily 18). The line incorporates the mystery of the story of the butterflies with the mystery of the journey with the bird in the poem below.

Since "Two Birds Went Out at Noon" was so short, we picked a poem that had the same theme called "A Bird Came Down the Walk." In this poem she is simply observing the observations of a bird, just like she was observing the butterflies. The mystery in the story is that the birds and butterflies do not know her and she does not know them, but she can figure out a lot about them by just watching. She combines the two poems with the line "Than two oars divide the ocean, too silver for a seam, or two butterflies, off banks of noon, leap, plashless, as they swim" (Dickinson, Emily 23) The line incorporates the theme of the butterflies flying over the ocean with the bird that is flying over the ocean too. The observances she makes in the poems are very unique. She attempts things that people ordinarily would not. She actually looks at the bird and breaks down every move that it makes (Dickinson, Emily 23). To her, everything has a meaning and a purpose.

Dickinson, Emily. "23. “A Bird Came down the Walk:.” Part Two: Nature. Dickinson, Emily. 1924. Complete Poems." 23. “A Bird Came down the Walk:.” Part Two: Nature. Dickinson, Emily. 1924. Complete Poems. Bartleby Great Books Online. Web. 30 Mar. 2012. <http://www.bartleby.com/113/2023.html>.


Dickinson, Emily. "18. “Two Butterflies Went out at Noon.” Part Two: Nature. Dickinson, Emily. 1924. Complete Poems." 18. “Two Butterflies Went out at Noon.” Part Two: Nature. Dickinson, Emily. 1924. Complete Poems. Bartleby Great Books Online. Web. 30 Mar. 2012. <http://www.bartleby.com/113/2018.html>.