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Hope Is The Thing With Feathers By Emily Dickinson

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In the poem “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers”, by Emily Dickinson, Dickinson describes a bird with specific details. The bird is always with you: every second, every minute, every hour. Not only is it with you anytime, but wherever you are, you can always find it. It is with you even in the toughest times, but we seldom to realize it. We only realize and appreciate that little bird when we are in the deepest tragedies because the bird feels more sweet in the hardest times in life than in our regular, everyday life. After all the tragedies, the little creature with feathers is still with us, but it never wants anything in return. Now you wonder, how is a bird with us anywhere, anytime? It is not, it is “hope” that is with us anywhere, anytime. Dickinson relates these little creatures with “hope” because of their many similarities. “Hope” will always be there no matter what, at any time, but we only appreciate it in the hardest times. In the end, after everything it has gone through with you, “hope” doesn 't ask for a single thing in return. …show more content…

Even if you are in the strangest or most miserable place or situation, it will still walk through every step with you. If you are sad or mad, “hope” will be by you. Also, if you are “... in the chillest land” (p. 40 l. 9) or in “... the strangest Sea”, (p. 40 l. 10) it will still be by your side. Think about the chillest land and the strangest sea. They are both miserable, uncomfortable, unknown, sad, and mysterious, yet “hope” is still willing to stay with you. Don 't worry if you are mad or hurt because “hope” will always be by your side. Even if you are happy, “hope” is still next to you, it “... never stops-at all-”. (p. 39 l. 4) But, sometimes we just don 't realize how much “hope” does for

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