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POV: 1st person because 'I' is used to represent author POV speaking

The narrator is very familiar with the concept of hope, going as far as to mention how they have had personal experiences with it. At the same time, they still do not completely understand it and question it, such as when they ponder how hope never takes anything in return for all its help. Ultimately, they know that it is not meant to be analyzed because it is a physiological feeling, and does not traditionally describe it through complicated science, but rather through simpler speech that can be understood by anyone.
Their tone is calm and speaks very highly of hope. They describe hope as withstanding storms and always offering us warmth and comfort. They also compare it to a wordless, sweet song meaning they value its beauty. Never do they say anything bad about hope either, meaning that maybe they are not experienced enough to ever be let down by hope.

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Stanza 1: Hope can be compared to feathers. Feathers are delicate, fragile, and mostly useless alone but when feathers join together, they are strong (even for little birds) and create the miracle of flight, which can be used for "escaping" situations that may have called for hope in the first place. Hope is constantly with you, or in your soul/spirit. It never truly goes away because it is a feeling inside of you. Hope sings a tune with no words, meaning there is no diction to analyze or make sense of it. It is a song purely meant to be heard, to be felt, and can't be described. Finally, hope never runs out because as a feeling and concept, it is endless.

Stanza 2: The "tune" of hope is best heard when the times are the toughest, or when the Gale is the strongest. Hope becomes stronger the more it is needed. It takes a big storm (of gales) in order to damage hope, or a bird. Hope can be seen as a bird because birds are the only creatures that have feathers, and rely on feathers to fly. They are a prime example of bunches of feathers coming together in order to produce flight, and freedom.  Hope strays strong even through hardship, especially if that particular hope keeps a large population warm, or feeling safe, secure, or happy

Stanza 3: The main point of view has apparently heard this tune of hope in the "chillest lands" and "strangest Seas" meaning they have experienced turning to hope in the most dire of times. Finally the POV reminisce how even though hope has helped and supported them through so much, it has never asked for anything in return.

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Poetic Device #3 - The ARRANGING of Words

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Poetic Device #3 - The ARRANGING of Words

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Stanzas - A division of a poem created by arranging the lines into a unit, often repeated in the same pattern of meter and rhyme throughout the poem; a unit of poetic lines (a “paragraph” within the poem). The stanzas within a poem are separated by blank lines.
Stanzas in modern poetry, such as free verse, often do not have lines that are all of the same length and meter, nor even the same number of lines in each stanza. Stanzas created by such irregular line groupings are often dictated by meaning, as in paragraphs of prose.

Example in poem: The whole poem is told in 3 separate stanzas, each with four lines. In the first stanza the poem labels what hope is and what it does. In the second it mentions how it saves us at the worst of times, how strong it is, and that it is a comfort to all. Finally in the third stanza the poem ties up by building up hope to be this all-powerful force, then only to reveal that it asks for nothing in return for all its help.

Effect on reader: This organizes the poem neatly in a way easy for the reader to understand. Also, as I said, the first two stanzas manage to hype up what hope is and what it does, and then the final stanza surprises us with hope's selflessness.

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Poetic Device #2 - The MEANINGS of Words

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Poetic Device #2 - The MEANINGS of Words

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Metaphor - A direct comparison between two unlike things, stating that one is the other or does the action of the other.

Example in poem: The concept of hope is compared to a bird, or having feathers.

Effect on reader: Hope is a huge, incomprehensible feeling that humanity has always been able to have, but it is not usually able to be described in words. This poem manages to encapsulate what hope is by comparing it to something we are much more familiar with, so that we can get an idea of what hope is through how it relates to bird and feathers.

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Rhyme -  This is the one device most commonly associated with poetry by the general public. Words that have different beginning sounds but whose endings sound alike, including the final vowel sound and everything following it.
Slant/Half Rhyme - If only the final consonant sounds of the words are the same, but the initial consonants and the vowel sounds are different. When this appears in the middle of lines
rather than at the end, it is called consonance.

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

Effect on reader: The rhyming gives the poem a lighter tone. The wittiness of the rhyming, however, makes the poem feel more mature. This captures the topic very well because although hope is positive, it's also very powerful

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Stanza 1: The concept of hope is a thing with feathers that resides in the human soul. It sings a sort of "song" that has no words, and it never stops.

Stanza 2: This song with no words is the sweetest to be heard when the wind is the strongest. The storm must be extremely bad in order for the little Bird, or hope, to be abashed. This little Bird has kept many people warm

Stanza 3: The POV (presumably the author) has heard the little Bird in the chillest land and on the strangest Sea. Yet, even in Extremity, the little Bird never even asked for even a crumb from them.

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Vocabulary:
Gale - A very strong wind OR short burst of sound
Abash - To be embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed

Allusion/Reference:
'Gale' (Line 5) and Storm (Line 6) alludes to hard or difficult times when hope may be needed. It could also literally reference harsh weather, because in the time period of this poem adverse weather conditions could be a serious problem for transportation, causing those suffering to hope for a good outcome.

'little Bird' (Line 7) alludes to the embodiment of hope, or the thing with feathers. Like a bird, hope has feathers in this poem.

'chillest land' (Line 9) and 'strangest Sea' (Line 10) alludes to hard times or circumstances. It could also literally reference cold climate and dangerous/unfamiliar water.

'asked a crumb of me' (Line 12) alludes to hope never asking for anything in return, even in extremities.

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Birthdate: December 10th, 1830 - May 15th, 1886

From: Amherst, Massachusetts

Interesting info:
1) She also had two siblings, a sister and brother, just like me
2)She was interested in botany, and integrated it into some of her poetry
3)She never married or had children

Source citation: Poetry Foundation. “Emily Dickinson.” Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation, 2018, www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/emily-dickinson.

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By Emily Dickinson
"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.