English 9-10: Poetry Connection

'Hope' is the Thing With Feathers:
Emily Dickinson is trying to tell the reader about hope. The meaning of "Hope" is that hope is always there, and it's always sweet or good. It 'never stops -- at all'. Hope keeps 'so many warm' and it takes a lot of horrid things to push hope away. Emily states at the end that she has 'heard it in the chillest land -- And on the strangest Sea-- Yet, never, in Extremity, It asked a crumb -- of me.' Hope is everywhere, and it doesn't ask anything of you. It's always there for you, unabashedly. I chose this poem because hope is always there for you, and it makes you do amazing things. Reading about that makes you want to do those things.
I connected with the poem because hope is a good thing to have. Whenever I'm going through a really rough time, I always try to think of the positive things in my life, or what I'm going to do about the bad things, and, through having hope, I get courage, and, eventually, happiness. Emily Dickinson describes hope so well that you automatically connect with the poem because anyone who has ever had hope knows what it feels like. They also know what it's like to lose it. Having hope makes you invincible.