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Emily Dickinson Hope

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The text “Hope is the thing with Feathers,” by Emily Dickinson uses birds as a metaphor for its true meaning as hope. She explains hope and you throughout your life. The message Emily Dickinson is trying to say by this poem is that hope is always with you no matter what is happening and that it never asks anything from you. In the first stanza of her poem, she says hope is birds and it is in your heart. In the end of the stanza, she says this: “And never stops--at all--” (p. 39 l. 4). This piece of evidence states that the hope bird that is in your heart is always with you and will continue to give you hope forever. It will always be with you no matter what. In the third stanza of the poem, she talks of the extremities that hope endures

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