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Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, in a Homestead, on December 10, 1830. Her quiet life was infused with a creative energy that produced almost 1800 poems and a profusion of vibrant letters. Her lively Childhood and Youth were filled with schooling, reading, explorations of nature, religious activities, significant friendships, and several key encounters with poetry. Her most intense writing years consumed the decade of her late 20s and early 30s; during that time she wrote almost 1100 poems, including "Hope is a Thing With Feathers" and "Because I Could Not Stop for Death."

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Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The Carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

We passed the school, where children strove
At recess, in the ring;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

Or rather, he passed us;
The dews grew quivering and chill,
For only gossamer my gown,
My tippet only tulle.

We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.

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A common theme in Dickinson's poem is obviously hope. She pictures hopes differently throughout the poem making the reader make the connections between the characteristics of a bird and hope. Repetition is apparent in the structure of the poem. She repeats "and" and "the" during the entirety of it (Dickinson, line 3). Something else apparent in the structure of the poem is quatrain which is a four-line stanza of poetry. She repeats this three times in her poem. The meanings of her poems are quite special in regards to "hope" and "immortality" of a character (Dickinson, line 1; line 4). Dickinson adds more meaning into her poems by having a structure and vocabulary of motivational, inspirational terms of the story the poem portrays. The historical context of the poem is that they both "perches in the soul" and shares similar settings and plots during the same time period of where Dickinson was in (Dickinson, line 2). Lastly, Emily Dickinson had been through the ending times of the Civil War and it had influenced her dark, yet lifting poems.

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Symbol: a person, place, object, or activity that stands for something beyond itself.
An example of this is when Dickinson writes, "'Hope is the thing with the feathers, that perches the soul." (Dickinson, lines 1-2). She describes hope as if it were a bird saying that it has feathers and that it perches the soul. The bird is symbolizing hope.

Rhyme: when the sounds of their accented vowels and all succeeding sounds are identical.
Dickinson writes, "And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard... That could abash the little bird.." (Dickinson, lines 5-7) The words "heard" and "bird" in this poem rhyme as well as "storm" and "warm" in the same stanza.

Implication: A suggestion an author or speaker makes (implies) without stating it directly.
An example of this is when she writes, "It asked a crumb - of me-." (Dickinson, line 12) She writes this for the reader/audience to infer and kind of interpret for ourselves.

Personification: When a nonhuman object is given human characteristics. An example of this in her poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" is, "Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me;" (Dickinson, lines 1-2). Since Death is not a human being, Dickinson gave Death an action to "stop."

Rhyme: Words rhyme when the sounds of their accented vowels and all succeeding sounds are identical. Dickinson shows this by having the ending words of the second and fourth line of each stanza rhyme, "...me; ...Immortality..." (Dickinson, lines 2-4).

Aphorism: A general truth or observation about life, usually stated concisely and pointedly. The poet shows this in her poem, "Were toward eternity" (Dickinson, line 23). This shows the basic importance of what the topic Dickinson shows about the topic of "immortality" in her poem as her main character dies in the text.

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"Hope is a Thing with Feathers" By Emily Dickenson

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"Hope is a Thing with Feathers" By Emily Dickenson

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"Hope" is the thing with the 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.