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"Hope" is the thing with feathers

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"Hope" is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—
And sings the tune without the words—
And never stops—at all—

And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard—
And sore must be the storm—
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm—

I've heard it in the chillest land—
And on the strangest Sea—
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb—of Me.

Emily Dickinson


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  Yana Kirilova  (10/15/2009 6:38:00 AM)

Wonderful! So simple and so intense in one time...
  Digna Gomez  (9/19/2009 1:25:00 PM)

bored ......................
  Carles Purba  (9/15/2009 11:31:00 PM)

someone help me? ?
What feathers means in this poem? ? ty
  Areena Arora  (9/8/2009 4:36:00 AM)

amazingly woven....very nice...
  Fiona Kennedy  (8/23/2009 5:42:00 PM)

I felt very moved by this poem it's the first Dickinson poem I've read. Describes hope perfectly
  Ravi A  (8/7/2009 1:22:00 PM)

In extreme reality, hope may leave us or we will rather lose hope. Hope is an expectaion of unrealized 'morrows. Whether hope leaves us into despair or shows happy dales, it is this hope which drives us to sustain in the sea of life where no real prediction is really possible. 'The title. Feathers tell volumes.
  Teresa Gregg  (7/25/2009 10:19:00 PM)

ahhh..lovely, gentle, quiet hope.How simply shining...
  Sangnam Nam  (7/24/2009 7:46:00 AM)

'perches in the soul
the hope
...' means? ? ? ?
strangest sea and
fate
  Cecil Gose  (7/22/2009 6:25:00 AM)

In this world of today where terrorism becomes a habit, with economic and political crisis arises, the only thing that's left is HOPE!

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