Emily Dickinson - ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers -

Question 1

How is Hope portrayed in the poem

Answer 1

It is a feeling and intangible but she likens it to something physical, a bird

Question 2

Introduction to the metaphor of a bird quote

Answer 2

‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers -

Question 3

An elegant line that says the bird of hope rests in the would and exists within everyone
It’s not something you must earn, it’s given to everyone

Answer 3

That perches in the soul

Question 4

Quote
The bird is always hopeful and never isn’t
Emphatic

Answer 4

sings the tune without the words - and never stops - at all

Question 5

Quote
Hope can be heard even in the hardest of times
Comforting

Answer 5

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard

Question 6

Quote

There is no hardship so bad that would silence hope

Answer 6

Sore must be the storm - that could abash the little bird

Question 7

Quote
She likens times of hardship to distant and icy places
It’s personal to her
But also universal

Answer 7

I’ve heard it in the chilliest land

Question 8

Quote

Hope never asked for anything back

Answer 8

never - in Extremity, it asked a crumb - of me