{"id":12057,"date":"2020-04-06T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T19:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=12057"},"modified":"2020-04-06T12:11:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T19:11:05","slug":"hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers\/","title":{"rendered":"National Poetry Month: “Hope” Is The Thing With Feathers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Poems can offer solace, enrich our lives and some even offer hope.\u00a0 Emily Dickinson’s poem “Hope” Is The Thing With Feathers<\/em> is one of the best known of Emily Dickinson’s poems. An extended metaphor, it likens the concept of hope to a feathered bird that is permanently perched in the soul of every human. There it sings, never stopping in its quest to inspire. (source:\u00a0 https:\/\/owlcation.com\/humanities\/Analysis-of-Poem-Hope-Is-The-Thing-With-Feathers-by-Emily-Dickinson<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Several years ago, members of the Collins Library staff\u00a0 hand printed this small keepsake under the direction of local printer Taylor Cox.\u00a0 We think the message resonates today and we hope you do as well.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHope\u201d is the thing with feathers<\/strong><\/a> <\/em>
\nBy Emily Dickinson<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHope\u201d is the thing with feathers –<\/em>
\nThat perches in the soul –<\/em>
\nAnd sings the tune without the words –<\/em>
\nAnd never stops – at all –<\/em><\/p>\n

And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard –<\/em>
\nAnd sore must be the storm –<\/em>
\nThat could abash the little Bird<\/em>
\nThat kept so many warm –<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard it in the chillest land –<\/em>
\nAnd on the strangest Sea –<\/em>
\nYet – never – in Extremity,<\/em>
\nIt asked a crumb – of me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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