Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Introduction

Emily Dickinson "Hope is the thing with feathers", Part VI is a much larger poem entitled "Life." The poem examines the abstract idea of hope in the spirit of the bird free.DiscussionThe first section    Dickinson uses the image of a bird metaphor to describe the abstract idea of hope. We hope, of course, is not something alive, it is dead, but gives hope of feathers, she begins to create an image of hope in our minds.The second stanza

"The hope, she suggests, or hostel perches in the soul. Spirit is the hope lies in our soul as a bird ...