In "Hope is the thing with feathers", hope is heard in troubled times and warms the soul, but isn't always rational. The poem says hope, "perches in the soul" (2). Hope is described as constant, and as an irrefutable part of us. But the perching' bird controls us, its claws' on our heart, and we feel compelled to never give up our dreams. Hope is also, "sweetest-in the Gale" (5). People cling to hope when life is hard, and hope is welcome when all else has failed. Hope comes to people anytime, anywhere. However pleasing hope is, it, "sings the tune without the words" (3). Hope is attractive, and promises much, but there are no words to back up the tune, and is mostly something to keep one's soul going, not something that will ever amount to anything or deliver on its promises. It is alluring to gamble everything on hope, but in the end, there aren't any words', and you'll always lose. Anyone can be both warmed and deluded by hope.…
In the poem, the author describes the scene of birds singing early in the morning and how quickly the sereneness ends. The author uses diction and metaphors to describe the birds’ song.…
In Emily Dickinson’s poem “I am afraid to own a Body” the speaker primarily uses sound to posit the overall theme of the poem. More specifically, she uses incoherent and disjointed repetition (notably alliteration and assonance) and slant rhymes that scatter the poem but do not fall into any pattern to suggest her own inability to conform to expected or desired patterns of being a human. The background imagery of inheritance to which the poem alludes complements these expected patterns.…
The title “If I Should Die” immediately lets the audience know the poem will be about death. “Die”…
Famous writer Emily Dickinson is well known for expressing depression and love in her poems. Some people believe that this is because of a traumatic emotional experience she went through in her late twenties or early thirties. There are multiple ways and techniques she uses to show her feelings in her poems. In If you were coming in the Fall, Dickinson uses a variety of different techniques to show her feelings for a loved one known only as "you."…
In “We grow accustomed to the Dark,” Emily Dickinson uses eloquent metaphors, obsidian imagery, and repetitious structure to explain how when you “learn to see” the bad events in your life can get a little better.…
Death is an odd thing, humans do not know what waits for them the moment their hearts stop beating, they do not know where they’ll end up going- but death is a common topic. Whether it be in movies or writing, death has made its impression on the world; especially on poet Emily Dickinson. Dickinson’s poems, “I heard a Fly buzz- when I died” and “Because I could not stop for Death” focus on a consistent theme of death and her own curiosity on what it might be like to die herself. Dickinson’s life and use of the archetypal device have a connection to helping fuel her dreary, death revolving, poetry.…
Agrawal, Abha. Emily Dickinson, Search for Self. New Delhi: Young Asia Publications, 1977. N. Pag. Print.…
Emily Dickinson might be called an artisan, since most of her poems have fewer than thirty lines, yet she deals with the most deep topics in poetry: death, love, and humanity’s relations to God and nature. Her poetry not only impresses by its on going freshness but also the animation. Her use of language and approachness of her subjects in unique ways, might attribute to why “Hope is the thing with feathers” is one of her most famous works.…
The poem “If You were Coming in the Fall” is written by Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson studied at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke Female SEminary and wrote 1800 poems. About a dozen of her poems were published during her life. She mentions to her friend that various people in her life have died such as her friends and her teacher. In her poem, “IF you were Coming in the Fall,” she talks about waiting a long time for someone to return and the threat of an unknown length of time. In this poem, the theme is “waiting for a long and indefinite length of time makes people anxious and desperate.” I came to this conclusion because the overall tone of the poem is anxious and desperate. Also, the content always tells of huge amounts of time even when paraphrased.…
In "Hope is the thing with feathers", hope is heard in troubled times and warms the soul, but isn't always rational. The poem says of hope, "That [it] perches in the soul" (2). Hope is described as constant, and as an irrefutable part of us. Hope is also, "sweetest-in the Gale" (5). People can have hope anytime, anywhere. Hope is welcome when all else has failed. However pleasing hope is, it, "sings the tune without the words" (3). Hope sounds nice, and promises much, but there are no words to back up the tune, and is mostly something to keep one going, not something that will ever amount to anything.…
Next, in part two, “Isolation from Everything,” the speaker uses imagery to describe his absent-spirited mindset. He observes, “The woods have it--it is theirs./ All animals are smothered in their lairs” (5-6). The speaker of course is referring to the snow continuously piling on top of the field. The speaker sees the “emptiness” taking over the field completely, even seeing the animals have a sense of belonging while he does not. Emily Dickinson’s “It Might Be Lonelier” has a similar message to the speaker in “Desert Places.” She confesses:…
Author and publishers write incredible, meaningful pieces of work, like the poem “Hope is the thing with feathers” written by Emily Dickinson. “Hope is a thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words.” The poem is comparing the word hope to a bird. The bird in this poem has a meaning though, The bird symbolizes hope in everyone reading this poem, and how some days you feel that hope is a useful thing and some days it feels useless. But in the end it never leaving your soul.…
"I Cannot Live With You" is one of Emily Dickinson’s famed love poems, close in form to the poetic argument of a classic Shakespearean sonnet. The poem advances her thoughts about her lover, slowly, from the first declaration to the inevitable devastating conclusion. This poem, however, argues against love. The poem can be broken down into a series of five assertions. The first explains why she cannot live with the object of her love, the second why she cannot die with him, the third why she cannot rise with him, the fourth why she cannot fall with him, and the final utterance of impossibility.…
This poem constantly reminds me of the daily challenges I face at school while studying and how hope is there in the hardest moments to ‘keep me warm’. It teaches you how hope is frail but strong, and hope is unselfish and never asks not even a ‘crumb’ of you. The way in which Dickinson puts the words together with such subtlety amazes me as it can relate to me and connect to me with such power.…