“Hope” Is the Thing with Feathers: Emily Dickinson

Hannah Hulvey English II Balint 22 April, 2013 apprehend is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson In this poem, Emily is saying how nature is dissever or basically, she employs images from nature for contrasting purposes. In this poem nature is both(prenominal) beneficent and destructive. The division is do between the image of the raspberry and the images of threatening storms and at loggerheads environments. This split corresponds to a separation between inwardly and away, between interior and exterior spaces.The major theme of this poem is that Dickinson is comparing the hope in the psyche with a bird. The bird never quits singing. So should we keep singing our songs, our poems, our prose. Even the roughest storms tin cant keep the bird from its singing. Nor should we let our own storms, our personal disappointments like deaths of family and friends, stop us. The poem uses a bird as a symbol to define the feeling that hope can give an individual. In the first stanza, Dickinson tell the subscriber that Hope is the thing with feathers .That perches in the soul. and sings the tune-without the words. And never gelt at all. In other words, hope is reveal of a spirit that lives in all of us. The pick up feel of hope comes naturally and stays with us. A series of words in the second and threesome stanzas sore, storm, chillest, Extremity combine to evince a incompatible side of nature, as dangerous and threatening. Here the esthesis is of an exterior space, wild and unprotected.Dickinson tells us, the tune the bird sings is sweetest, suggesting both that it is the most comforting thing heard amid the resound of the storm, and that, term the tune is sweet when it is heard while one is safe, it is sweetest when one is in danger. If we look at Hope Is the Thing with Feathers in terms of Dickinsons life, we can perhaps read a interpretation on her withdrawal from the world. Dickinson turned inward into herself and close down out the world, and she suggests that inside it is peaceful and secure, while outside it is hostile and dangerous. And how does this describe my life?