The poem we will be learning about today is “Hope” is the thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson. She is creating a metaphor of Hope through the bird. She is describing hope as a bird “the thing with feathers” that perches in her soul. It sings silent and without hesitate. The Rhythm of hope sounds peaceful “in the Gale,” and it would require a terrifying thunderstorm to ever “abash the little Bird, That kept so many warm.” Emily says that she has overheard the bird of hope “in the chillest land And on the strangest Sea, but never, no matter how extreme things got it never asked for anything from her. Emily the Arthur of the poem is using the metaphor of a small bird to carry her idea that hope stays alive in us no matter what all of our
