Revision 800 words

Kei Yasuda
Ms.Guarino
English II
27 May, 2016  

Bird is the Hope

     Poem is usually telling story and poem is easier to understand the story than normal book story because it has rhythm, meter, rhyme and shorter. So it is easy to remember. I chose, “Hope is the thing with feathers” and this is written by Emily Dickison in 1861. This is one of her best poem and this is very popular. Her poem is hard to understand if you don't know metaphor. Metaphor is the one of figurative language and it sounds false or ridiculous but after you read it, you'll understand the meaning of metaphor and the connection between two words. In "Hope is the thing with features", Emily Dickison used bird to describe hope. This poem shows that hope is flying like a bird in everywhere in the world and it can stay strong and keep flying in the air even there is a storm. That means people can maintain their hope when they are in hard time or hard situation because hope is everywhere and there is always a chance to catch the hope.
      "Hope is the thing with feathers" is about hope as you can see in the title. In this poem, the author think hope as a bird. In first stanza, it describes what is hope. In second stanza, it describes that hope is there but there is other things that makes bird to not reach to the hope. You can hear the sweetest sound when you were in the gale. Sweetest sound is hope but the gale interrupt the bird. So the bird can't reach the hope. It says, "That could abash the little bird" this means that storm can abash or interrupt the hope. This stanza told us about how hard is to reach to the hope but hope can stay strong because at end of second stanza, it says,"That kept so many warm" I think this is showing that storm can abash the hope but hope can stay strong. Third stanza is very difficult to understand. However this is showing that hope can be everywhere because it says, "I've heard it in the chillest land—And on the strangest Sea—." Chilliest land and in the strangest sea described that it could be anywhere.
      This poem has three stanzas and each stanza has four lines, so there are 12 lines in this poem. In first stanza, there is slant rhyme which is, "soul" and, "all." Slant rhyme is not actual rhyme but it sounds very similar. In second stanza, there are two end rhymes. Also each line of first stanza and second stanza started with that or and, but only first line of first stanza doesn't start with these two words because this author wanted to say, "Hope is the thing with feathers," at beginning of the poem because the main idea of the poem is this sentence. In third stanza there is no rhyme. In first stanza, syllables are 7, 5, 8, 6, and it doesn't relate but in second and third stanza, syllables are 8, 6, 8, 6. So they are related. I think Emily Dickison didn't care syllables of first stanza because she needed to say, “Hope is the thing with feathers” in first line. However, those two stanza have syllables tat relate each other.
     In this poem, there is figurative language. It is, "Hope is the thing with feathers." This is metaphor because when you heard this first, it sounds like this is false but when you think about the meaning, you can understand. Also, "And sore must be the storm," is metaphor because it sounds ridiculous but readers can understand the meaning. The pacing of the poem is little bit slow but it could be fast too. When I read this, I tried to say first stanza very nicely. Then I say little strong from, "and sore must be the storm" because I think I should say this strong, but I also say this with sad feeling. This is important part of the poem because it told readers that hope can stay strong against the storm. At end I speak very carefully, from,"yet." I speak this very carefully because this is the last part of poem.
      This poem is easy to understand if you know that Emily Dickison is using metaphor in “Hope is the thing with feathers.” In this poem, bird is hope. Bird can fly everywhere they want and they are in all over the world. There is storm that interrupts bird but bird can stay strong and keep flying because bird can hear the sweetest sound. This poets didn't focus on the form of the poem, she wanted to tell readers that hope is the thing with feathers and the importance of the hope. Also she wanted to make the connection between this poem and real world. In the world, there is so many birds in all over the world. That means there is hope that people can't count. Everyone has hope and they are important to their life.