Emily Dickenson wrote two poems. They are “Hope is the thing with feathers” and “Success is counted sweetest.” Hope is “a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.” (Google)1 Hope is described in both poems.
In “Hope is the thing with feathers,” hope is characterized as a bird. “Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul,/And sings the tune without the words,/And never stops at all,.” Hope is always calling for you, perching, and waiting, on you. “I've heard it in the chillest land,/And on the strangest sea;” Everywhere you look, you find hope. It’s everywhere and for everyone. Just like a bird, hope is on ice-cold lands, and in the middle of the oceans. It takes a lot of hardships, or storms, to make hope uneasy and unbalanced. “And sweetest in the gale is heard;/And sore must be the storm/That could abash the little bird…” Hope also is the thing that gives people comfort (warmth). “…That kept so many warm.” Hope doesn’t put any burden or trouble on you. “Yet, never, in extremity,/It asked a crumb of me;” …show more content…
They heard the victory cries of their enemy and they feel ashamed. People cherish the things that they don’t have, more than the people who do. Hope ties into this poem as well as “Hope is the thing with feathers.” The people, who lost the war, needed hope to continue to fight, even when they were losing. Hope is the thing that kept them in battle. The victorious side hoped that they would win. “As he, defeated, dying,/On whose forbidden ear/The distant strains of triumph/Break, agonized and
In “Hope is the thing with feathers,” hope is characterized as a bird. “Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul,/And sings the tune without the words,/And never stops at all,.” Hope is always calling for you, perching, and waiting, on you. “I've heard it in the chillest land,/And on the strangest sea;” Everywhere you look, you find hope. It’s everywhere and for everyone. Just like a bird, hope is on ice-cold lands, and in the middle of the oceans. It takes a lot of hardships, or storms, to make hope uneasy and unbalanced. “And sweetest in the gale is heard;/And sore must be the storm/That could abash the little bird…” Hope also is the thing that gives people comfort (warmth). “…That kept so many warm.” Hope doesn’t put any burden or trouble on you. “Yet, never, in extremity,/It asked a crumb of me;” …show more content…
They heard the victory cries of their enemy and they feel ashamed. People cherish the things that they don’t have, more than the people who do. Hope ties into this poem as well as “Hope is the thing with feathers.” The people, who lost the war, needed hope to continue to fight, even when they were losing. Hope is the thing that kept them in battle. The victorious side hoped that they would win. “As he, defeated, dying,/On whose forbidden ear/The distant strains of triumph/Break, agonized and