"HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS"

BIO OF EMILY DICKINSON

• She was born December 10, 1803
• She died May 15, 1886
• She lived very isolated form the rest of the world
• She wasn't close to very many people the only person she was very close to her mother, but her mother dies in 1882.
• In this poem you could explain that this poem is about God giving her hope through grough times

THEME AND SETTING

• Theme is that God is always there for you he his the hope which is the bird
• 1st person
• Speaker-Emily Dickinson
• Setting- it is outside
• Conflict- man vs. itself

MOOD AND TONE

• Mood is hopeful and upbeat because it is talking about how hope is seen and heard in the strangest places and roughest times
• Tone- Emily Dickinson's tone is happy and hopeful

IMAGERY

• Hope is the thing with feathers- it is basically saying it is a animal that has feathers
• That perches in the soul- the bird is perching on a brach
• That could abash the little Bird- the storm could embarrass the little bird
• I've heard in the chilliest lands and strangest seas- it is saying you can see and hear the bird through the storm

SOUND AND STRUCTURE

• This poem is Iambic trimeter has three and Iambic tetrameter has four feet
• She put dashes in to make you pause and think about what you read
• The rhythm scheme is ABAB it

FIGURES OF SPEECH

• Metaphor-hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul,
• Hyperbole-
• Personification- that kept so many warm

SOUND DEVICES

• Alliteration- and sore must be the storm and also could be personification