![]() ![]() I’m not sure what to make of that style choice. If hope asked something of us, that would be more like faith, right?įinally, the other notable thing about this poem is the frequent use of dashes throughout. I also read those last two lines of the poem as saying hope flourishes in the soul during the darkest times, even when we don’t see it or recognize its siren song. While hope operates internally (it “perches in the soul”), it remains its own external entity since it never “in Extremity” asked a crumb – of me.” My interpretation of why “hope” at the beginning is in quotes is to express that quality of hope existing eternally from us while within us. As Dickinson said in the last sentence of the first stanza, “And never stops – at all -.” And in fact, as indicated by the second stanza, hope is its strongest when faced with the worst, epitomized by “gale” and “storm” in the second stanza. ![]() “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers,” is a beautiful, somewhat simple, poem about hope and the durability of hope. That’s exactly the vibe change I was looking for to close out tonight. ![]() As it happened, I was flipping through my poetry app and landed on one of Emily Dickinson’s most famous poems about hope. Admittedly, lately, I’ve been taking a deep dive into Halloween, so a lot of my posts have been Michael Myers-based. ![]()
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