The poem, “Hope is the thing with feathers,” by Emily Dickinson, explains hope as if it were a bird. The poem uses the bird to symbolize that hope is always with us even in the hardest times. The poem uses a metaphor that compares a bird to hope. The first line of the poem states, “Hope is the thing with feathers.” This line is is implying that hope is a bird because it says, “is the thing with feathers,” and, “abash the little bird.” The author compares hope to a bird to make it easier to understand. The author did this because since hope is a feeling that can not be seen physically, this makes it harder to describe. When the author compares hope, which is a feeling, to a bird, which is a real thing, the reader can relate better. Because
