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‘“Hope” is the Thing with Feathers’ is one of the most popular poems about hope and was written by famed American poet Emily Dickinson, sometime around 1862. The extended metaphor of a bird unfolds across the verses to denote the act of hoping – something that flies, sings, and warms the hearts of many and yet asks nothing in return. To be hopeful is thus seen as a free gift, as it does not cost one to maintain the feeling, and it miraculously weathers any storm. The rhyme scheme is a-b-c-b in the first stanza, a-b-a-b in the second, and a-b-b-b in the concluding stanza. This poem reads like a tender hymn a mother would sing to her worried children. ‘“Hope” is the thing with feathers’ “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. #AVBOBpoetry