Emily Poem Hope is the thing

"Hope is the thing with Feathers" by Emily Dickinson is a very natural and optimistic story and it gives people an idea of what hope is and gives it a description instead of just it being an idea floating around. Emily Dickinson compares hope to a bird and how the little bird that sings and never worries he has hope for the future. She sees the bird as a something that brings sunshine to people with their songs even in the worst situations. Emerson and Thoreau are the naturalistic people and they would enjoy the comparison of hope to the bird and how the little bird can bring a lot of light into a dark and cold moment in time.

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, (Dickinson)
The feathers are warm and they give people a feeling of safety which comes from the shelter that feathers and warmth give to you. Singing is said to help people feel better about their day and a bird can not speak so his song is sung without word. That happy tune without words can influence someone and can change a day and make it better even when it seems nothing is going right. Emily Dickinson was very isolated and that is the life she choose to live and this is similar to the way Thoreau and Emerson hoped to live their lives and in some ways they did. They avoided the government and turned away from society and lived in the woods at some point in their lives (Wayne). Emerson believes he is a part of nature and with this relationship with nature he is  part of the universe (Wayne, Tiffany K. "Nature"). Emerson's belief that he is part of nature and Emily Dickinson's belief that the hope inside us is also a bird and that is nature, which puts a very natural and Eco-feeling to the whole idea that Emerson influenced the ideas of Emily Dickinson's connection to nature. 
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