Emily Dickinson Hope

Hope is seen through many eyes in different ways. Emily Dickinson sees hope as a thing with feathers. In Dickinson’s poem Hope is the Thing with Feathers hope is a bird. In the first stanza, it feels as if hope is something a person could reach out and touch. The way Dickinson words the stanza makes images and sounds appear. She chooses words that make the poem flow elegantly. The first stanza sets the tone for the whole poem itself. Dickinson chooses a path when writing this poem that projects a clear image of how she sees hope.
The first line of this poem gives an image that “Hope is the thing with feathers”. Dickinson uses this metaphor to her advantage and paints pictures as she writes. Dickinson paints a picture of feathers and birds soaring through the sky. This adds a physical being to something that is just a feeling. The bird said to be pitching in the soul and singing tunes of hope, making the feeling arise. When she uses these lines it is almost as if this bird of hope can be touched and heard if you listen close enough. The last line says that it never stops singing these tunes and creating hope. The bird is an everlasting being …show more content…
Just in the first stanza there are things that affect the whole poem itself. The lines describe a bird and the bird metaphor is used throughout the poem. It mentions in the third stanza “I’ve heard it in the chillest land” which refers to the tune that it sing that is in the third line of the poem, without this earlier mention that line would not be as meaningful. Throughout Dickinson's work it explains that this bird of hope stops at nothing. In the last line of the first stanza it is first mentioned that this tune never stops and the poem continues to prove this. It states “That could abash the little bird” when it is brought up that something must be very hard in order to put down the bird. It also says that Dickinson has heard it through