Wednesday, January 26, 2011

"Hope" is the Thing with Feathers Analysis

POEM = http://poetryoutloud.org/poems/poem.html?id=171619

I very much enjoyed this poem. I'm not sure if it's because I heard it so many times or what but it just has a very beautiful rhythmic feel to it. The personification of "hope" to that of a bird gives the feeling that "hope" is free and can travel anywhere that it pleases. The second stanza of the poem has a violent falre to it due to the line ,"That could abash the little Bird." In the third stanza the tone changes from to very mysterious. The shift from third person to first person enhances the personification of "hope" as a bird.

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