Thursday, May 1, 2014

GRIDLOCK

Title: Hope: The title is straightforward and sets up the theme/subject

Paraphrase: Hope is something you find in your soul, something deep down that never stops existing. Only the worst storm (situation) of all could ever put out Hope. I've experienced hope in the worst of times and when I've been lost and it's never asked for anything in return for being there.

Connotation: Hope has a very positive connotation. It's represented as an uplifting idea/feeling. Crumb doesn't literally mean bread in this context but represents everything Hope could ask for (time, money, some form of payment).

Attitude: The attitude seems grateful and reverent of the great things Hope has done for the narrator.

Shifts: Line 9 beginning "I've heard it in the chilliest land..." the poem shifts to a more personal point of view and the narrator begins to identify with Hope in first person.

Title: The title expresses the main idea for the poem.

Theme: Hope is never lost.


Hope     

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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