Can anyone paraphrase this?

Question

The poem is A bird came down the Walk by Emily Dickinson. In the poem she offers a bird a crumb and then it flies away. I separated the last paragraph with slashes. Can anyone please paraphrase these sentences line by line? I'd appreciate it so much!:) Here it is:
"And he unrolled his feathers/
And rowed him softer home/
Than oars divide the ocean/
Too silver for a seam/
Or butterflies, off banks of noon/
Leap, plashless, as they swim"

Answer 1

He spread his wings/
and rowed gently home/
with oars cutting the water/
so bright lit the water/
or butterflies in the afternoon on the banks of the sea/
Jump and swim without splashing

Answer 2

Usually, I think that you should think about a poem for about a hundred hours before you are allowed to ask a question like this.

But this imagery is some of the most breathtaking in all of English Poetry, and if you don't understand it, you truly need some help, so here it is.

Notice that in the images of the last stanza, Dickinson describes the most artistic, the most beautiful, images of a bird taking wing ever written in English poetry.

With two simple comparisons she evokes beauty, fluidity and "butterflies off Banks of Noon," plashlessly swimming. Wow. S*it.

Here, for everyone's enjoyment, is the Poem:

Emily Dickinson (1830–86).

A Bird Came Down the Walk

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.

He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad,—
They looked like frightened beads, I thought
He stirred his velvet head

Like one in danger; cautious,
I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home

Than oars divide the ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,
Leap, plashless, as they swim.

Answer 3

He unrowed his feathers: meaning he spread his wings for flight.
And rowed him softer home: meaning he flew with ease back home.
Than oars divide the ocean: meaning his flight was with more ease than the actions of the oceans waters.
Too silver for a seam: describing the ocean view in reference to the waters blanketing the sea bottom by appearing to be smooth and not choppy as some oceans are.
or butterflies,off banks of noon: meaning his flight was much more beautiful than that of a butterfly in flight.
Leap,plashless,as they swim: meaning it is a comparison to the way the bird is appearing in flight & what he is flying over as he flies back home.

Answer 4

Plashless Definition

Answer 5

The bird flew beautifully home.

Answer 6

How about: It sucked.