Emily Dickinson's Hope Is The Thing With Feathers

From the first stanza, the Emily Dickinson starts off with a hopeful suggestion to the audience that “hope” is like a thing with feathers which is perched within the soul. The author seems to be using the metaphor that hope is like a bird because birds with feathers. Since birds perch on objects, the soul is used as a metaphor to suggest to the audience that the bird or hope is sitting inside the person. The audience from this point could assume that the bird or hope is inside every person. The next two lines of the poem state to the audience that the bird or hope is singing a tune without words and that it never stops. Emily Dickinson seems to be continuing the first two lines to suggest the bird is continuing on singing and that it never stops at all. For the audience they see how this is a normal behavior of birds to sing continuously or for hope to continue for certain people. The first stanza is suggesting to the audience that the bird is like hope which lies in the person’s soul and that it continues to single continuously. From the second stanza, Emily Dickinson picks up the first stanza by suggesting how the bird will continue singing sweetly even with the gale and no matter how bad the storms seemed to be. The author seems to be suggesting to the audience how the bird is singing even when there is a gale is …show more content…
Through the use of metaphors, the poem states how like a bird that faces the outside climates and dangers, it keeps on singing on. The bird represents hope where a person with hope can face through even the most disastrous times of their lives. Hope is within everyone’s soul and that it has not asked for anything in return because it will still continue onward. Hope continues on and the external and internal conflicts which can happen can shape it but hope still continues to bring a positive