She later studied for 10 months between 18 at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley. Dickinson attended the Amherst Academy as a youth. Each editor numbers the poems in the order they judge to be chronological.Įmily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10, 1830. Johnson assigns the poem the number 254 in his 1955 edition, and R. Like most of her poems, “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” was untitled at the time of Dickinson’s death, and the poem is identified by its first line. The poem was originally published in 1891, five years after Dickinson’s death. It is one of Dickinson’s many poems that explore the concept of hope through a metaphorical incarnation-in this case, as a bird. “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” exemplifies Dickinson’s idiosyncratic verse and use of religious forms. Instead, many of Dickinson’s poems fit into an older tradition of religious writing and are more influenced by hymns and psalms than by contemporary poetry. Dickinson expresses interest in American Transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson and his Romantic understanding of the natural world (the Romantic imagination celebrated humanity’s relationship to nature as a near-divine source of enlightenment), but these interests are difficult to see in her poetry. Dickinson’s verse is idiosyncratic and difficult to classify.
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