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Hope is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers

Emily Dickinson * Track #6 On Second Series

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Emily Dickinson

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Hope is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson

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In this famous early Dickinson poem, written around 1861, the poet imagines “Hope” as a metaphorical bird, not only brave and resolute, ready to sit out the worst kind of storm, but also confident and dignified, accepting no threats nor favors from others. This bird, according to the poet, lives wi...

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Hope is the thing with feathers Annotated

"Hope" is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I've heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.

Hope is the thing with feathers Q&A

Who wrote Hope is the thing with feathers's ?

Hope is the thing with feathers was written by Emily Dickinson.

I don't understand how to figure out the structure of this poem.. Hope by Emily

The poem mostly uses iambic trimeter which is a fancy way of saying there are 6 syllables in each line (3 unstressed and 3 stressed alternating). However, in some lines there are an additional one or two syllables.

The stanzas also follow irregular rhyme schemes.
Stanza one is ABCB, stanza two is A...

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What is the figure of speech used in the poem throughout?

I am not sure what you mean. Can you clarify your question please?

What does a bash mean

To abash someone or something is to make them feel make embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.

I don't get the last line

A crumb is a minute piece of food (you know this, obviously, but it helps to work through the line). If you read the line in the context of the whole stanza and follow Dickinson’s halting syntax, you realize that the final two lines are an argumentative pair. Rendered in normative syntax, the final...

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