Hope

• How do words of this famous poem relate to what we have been learning in Isaiah?
• Is Dickinson talking about the same kind of hope as Isaiah?  How do you know?
• According to the poem, what does hope do for us?
• Make a list of similes of how HOPE has sung her tune to your soul:
• Example: Hope is a still, small, voice

Hope is a breath of fresh air
Hope is birdsong in the morning



“Hope” is the thing with feathers
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.