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Hope is the Thing with Feathers

When people hear the word hope, they think of faith. Faith and hope have different meanings but also to have hope we need faith. Hope can be pure if only being let down by someone or just being foolish of something that really doesn't matter as much.
In the poem , "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" contains the literary devices of imagery, metaphor, and personification. All these literary devices add up to the theme by comparing them to things that are usually strange to be compared to hope.

Emily Dickinson uses imagery in the poem "Hope is the thing with feathers" by creating a vision made up by hope and a home. In stanza two, Dickinson asserts, ‘’that perches in the soul’’ Dickinson uses imagery of a

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