Emily Dickinson Hope

Emily Dickinson was an exceptional writer through the mid-late 1800’s. She never published any of her writings and it wasn’t until after her death that they were even discovered. The complexity of understanding her poems is made prevalent because of the fact that she, the author, cannot expound on what her writing meant. This causes others to have to speculate and decide for themselves the meaning of any of her poems. There are several ways that people can interpret Emily Dickinson’s poems; readers often give their opinion on which of her poems present human understanding as something boundless and unlimited or something small and limited, and people always speculate Dickinson’s view of the individual self.

Hope alone is a life-changing emotion or feeling, it alone can decide someone's fate in a life or death situation in which they have s main say in what happens. For example, in the book we read the Odyssey, there are multiple areas where hopes play a pretty big factor in the story. The Odyssey is a story where a man named Ulysses had to go to war for ten years and had a rough ten-year journey to get back home to his wife, son, family, and friends. He never gave up his hope that he would see his family again and that is the main thing in this essay is to never give up hope.

Emily Dickinson is one of the most important American poets of the 1800s. Dickinson, who was known to be quite the recluse, lived and died in the town of Amherst, Massachusetts, spending the majority of her days alone in her room writing poetry. What few friends she did have would testify that Dickinson was a rather introverted and melancholy person, which shows in a number of her poems where regular themes include death and mortality. One such poem that exemplifies her “dark side” is, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”. In this piece, Dickinson tells the story of a soul’s transition into the afterlife showing that time and death have outright power over our lives and can make what was once significant become meaningless.

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In Emily Dickinson’s poem #340, or also known as “I felt a funeral in my brain,” there is a theme of change that can be derived from the imagery presented by the poet. The poem is voiced from the perspective of the deceased who describes their funeral as heard through the casket. The choice to utilize a funeral as a backdrop to this poem is intriguing given that there could be many other ways to depict a personal change. Even though other poetic styles like Romanticism and transcendentalism exists in this era, Dickinson chooses to this ominous subject medium. Dickinson’s choice of setting for this poem could be indicative of her surroundings, namely the death-riddled Civil War era. Whether this poem represents a positive change or a negative change, is left up to the interpretation of the reader. One certainty is that Dickinson takes the reader into a story of transformation. Upon further examination, I would like to explore why I perceive this poem to be a metamorphosis for a positive change that emerges from a cocoon of the macabre.

She illustrates hope as a bird, and how it sings melodious hymns within you, and never gives up on you. This really stood out to me, mainly because of how metaphorical this was. The very first line starts with a metaphor, saying, “Hope is a thing with feathers…” This immediately intrigued me to read more, and found yet another, stating, “And sweetest in the Gale is heard;”, meaning that you could hear hope, singing it’s joyous praises, even through the strongest of your troubles. One last example of this extraordinary metaphorical language, comes in the last two lines. These two lines hit me vigorously, as it states, “Yet, never, in Extremity, It asked a crumb of

“Hope is the thing with feathers, which perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all…” Emily Dickson. Both Dickson and Ellis believe that hope can always find its way into anything and that once hope lights up inside of someone, it never fades. The theme of hope is dramatized in this novel by the use of inspirational leaders, symbolism and the process of never giving up hope for the people you love.

This poem is very positive and uplifting which is why a lot of people love this poem. " 'Hope Is the Thing With Feathers' In this poem, Dickinson is creating a metaphor of hope through a bird. The hope that is within the speaker is much like a bird that continues to fly inside her " (study.com). When people read this they see the hope that Emily has inside of her and it will give them hope as well. During this time period the country had just gotten out of the Civil War so the people may have been feeling down about their country and how things will go. With this poem people can read it and know that they should have hope that flutters inside of

Dickinson realizes hope as a something that never stop growing within humanity no matter what going on.      She describes the concept of hope to a feathered bird that constantly is in the heart of every human. She talks about how to react to hardship as human beings. She also shows the storms of potential effects on the bird.

Death is considered by many to be the heartbreaking end of life; the moment when one is bound to hopelessness, to accept loss, and to accept the inevitable. As discouraging as this outlook on death may appear, it is captivating why Emily Dickinson preferred to make death one among the major themes of her poems. Because numerous poets of the 19th century wrote about death, Dickinson was not exceptional in picking this idea. However, she was exceptional when it was about how she wrote about death. Dickinson concentrated on Eternity and the “hereafter” part of death; she was positive and considered death as pleasant rather than as a dreadful end. Her pleasant outlook

Poetry has the ability to expand minds and put its reader in touch with the world around them. Emily Dickinson attempts to convey the power of poetry in her poem I Dwell in Possibility. She pours her passionate feelings about poetry into this poem and drives her point home with a comparison to prose. Using language, structure, and symbolism, Emily Dickinson’s I Dwell in Possibility effectively articulates how poetry can broaden horizons and provide an escape from the mundane.

The fear of death is something that drives the decisions that we make in our life. One popular saying about the phenomenon of life and death that come to mind is: Life is short. The fact that many people believe that life is too short is a major influence in the way they live their lives. However, some believe that they don’t need to worry about making life as worthwhile as they can, as there is an afterlife of eternity that will greet them after death.. Emily Dickinson was one of those people.In the poem “Because I could not stop for Death”, Dickinson argues that Death is not something to be feared, as there is always eternity that follows life.

Emily Dickinson had hope and expressed that through her poem “Hope is the Thing with Feathers.” Even in the dark time of the Civil War (1861), she believed things would improve. Emily creates a metaphor of hope through the bird in the first line and continues on into the second line by implying that hope “perches in the soul” and that everyone has hope inside of them. Towards the end of the poem, she talks about how hope can be found anywhere even “in the chillest land and on the strangest sea” you just have to look for it because it will always be there. Emily speaks about her hope and how it “flies” around inside her, to encourage her audience to also have the same hope. “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” is an example of a ballad poem.

Emily Dickinson a modern romantic writer, whose poems considered imaginative and natural, but also dark as she uses death as the main theme many times in her writings. She made the death look natural and painless since she wanted the reader to look for what after death and not be stuck in that single moment. In her poems imagination play a big role as it sets the ground for everything to unfold in a magical way. The speakers in Dickinson’s poetry, are sharp-sighted observers who see the inescapable limitations of their societies as well as their imagined and imaginable escapes. To make the abstract tangible, to define meaning without confining it, to inhabit a house that never became a prison, Dickinson created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized. She turned increasingly to this style that came to define her writing. The poems are rich in aphorism and dense

Desmond Tutu once said: “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” As stated in the quote, the feeling of hope motivates people to look forward to a new tomorrow, and some literature works elaborate on the basic fact of ‘Never losing hope.’ Emily Dickinson, a well-acclaimed poet, highlights an accurate portrayal of the abstract concept of hope in her poem, entitled “‘Hope’ Is The Thing With Feathers,” through the usage of having a balladic nature, inimitable formatting, a powerful metaphor, vivid imagery, and stylistic alliteration. Although Dickinson’s way of expressing the message differs much from Tutu’s, readers can note multiple similarities. Both works portray differing definitions of what hope means