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Hope By Emily Dickinson

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The idea of individuality in mortals has been promulgated globally since the onset of times. Nevertheless, grasping and imbibing of others notions is often a leading path to reaching singularity. Thus, this next author has comprehended the poem of Emily Bronte and has found the element within it that indicated the course to her own distinctiveness. Not that Emily Dickinson’s “Hope’ is the thing with feathers” lacks uniqueness, but rather it is an inspiration, that in some simultaneous way relates and counter argues, “Hope” by Emily Bronte. As a result, Dickinson is influenced by Bronte’s line 19, to use the conceit of hope as a bird, contradicts Bronte by portraying hope as being the creature that pacifies others amidst the struggles and relates to her contemporary to a certain level of feeling. Consequently, the author conveys her originality by perceiving a different meaning in Bronte’s line 19. …show more content…

Verse 19 presents the idea that (hope) “spreads her wings”, introducing a metaphor to this personification and using the word “her”, to emphasize on the fact that the line refers to an actual person; a friend (Bronte 19). Subsequently, the New England Mystic determines that the “wings” mentioned in her coeval’s poem, can be alluded to a bird since a “friend” cannot literally have a pair of wings. Furthermore, the use of the word “soared” in the upcoming line, asserts on the idea that a distinct creature can be presumed (Bronte 20). Correspondingly, Dickinson is encouraged to write her own particular metaphor on hope, using her interpretation of line 19 from Bronte. Regardless, Dickinson disregards the rest of the poem to manifest her own perception of this

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