![]() ![]() The bird's song is given selflessly, in much the same way that hope does not hinge on certainty or clear expectation. She uses the image of the bird not asking for crumbs to illustrate this. Here, Dickinson is suggesting that hope does not require anything from humans. ![]() ![]() She foreshadows the bird's potential for endurance, and leads the reader to expect that it will be tested. She frames its melody as one that does not end, regardless of circumstance. it sets up the idea of hope, in the reader's mind, as something persistent but not invincible.ĭickinson develops the image of the bird she introduced in the first two lines. She refers to hope as "the thing with feathers," an image that is developed and illustrated through the rest of the text. Dickinson opens the poem by introducing the extended metaphor that is the subject of this poem. ![]()
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