Summary Of Hope Is The Thing With Feathers

I decided to write this paper about one of my favorite poems made by Emily Dickinson, a prolific private poet who was born in Massachusetts. Once Thomas H. Johnson made Dickinson’s poems accessible, several readers instantaneously discovered a great poet of great depth and stylistic complexity whose work eludes categorization . Dickinson is a unique poet with great achievements and known for her brilliance and diamond-hard language. Whilst all her work was found after her death, it was noticed that the subjects that Dickinson used are part of the topography of her own psyche, where she describes her own feelings in an incomprehensible format. Out of many beautifully written poems that she left behind, I selected to analyze “Hope is the thing with feathers” a poem, which …show more content…
Yet, it seems like the author is trying to describe hope as a way to believe in something, as well as achieve it. The title, as well as the first line of the poem has the power to communicate the main message. The combination of words that Dickinson uses comes in the form of a metaphor, as well as personification, comparing hope with a bird that has the power to sing in the most difficult situations. Moreover, she claims that hope does not stop from singing, and this song is sweet and nothing will pause it. Dickinson writes that she has her this bird of hope singing in the most difficult conditions (chilliest lands, strangest seas), but never did this bird ask a crumb from her. Furthermore, “Hope is the thing with feathers” comes in a form of iambic trimeter. Sometimes this form expands and creates a fourth stress at the very end of the line; for instance we can notice it at “And sings the tune without the words”.
Another characteristic that Dickinson uses in this poem is the use of long dashes (--), which break up the rhythm and indicate pauses. Moreover, the rhyme comes in the form of